Commit 8dc11dc5 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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[1.9.x] Fixed #25302 (again) -- Ignored scheme when checking for bad referers. 

The check introduced in 4ce433e8 was too strict in real life. The poorly
implemented bots this patch attempted to ignore are sloppy when it comes
to http vs. https.

Backport of 11f10b70 from master
parent b4a1d545

django/middleware/common.py

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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied 
from django.core.mail import mail_managers

from django.utils.cache import get_conditional_response, set_response_etag

from django.utils.encoding import force_text

from django.utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse



logger = logging.getLogger('django.request')
@@ -163,13 +164,17 @@ class BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware(object): 
        according to project settings or in three specific situations:

         - If the referer is empty.

         - If a '?' in referer is identified as a search engine source.

         - If the referer is equal to the current URL (assumed to be a

           malicious bot).

         - If the referer is equal to the current URL, ignoring the scheme

           (assumed to be a poorly implemented bot).

        """

        full_url = "%s://%s/%s" % (request.scheme, domain, uri.lstrip('/'))

        if (not referer or

                (not self.is_internal_request(domain, referer) and '?' in referer) or

                (referer == uri or referer == full_url)):

        if not referer:

            return True



        if not self.is_internal_request(domain, referer) and '?' in referer:

            return True



        parsed_referer = urlparse(referer)

        if parsed_referer.netloc in ['', domain] and parsed_referer.path == uri:

            return True



        return any(pattern.search(uri) for pattern in settings.IGNORABLE_404_URLS)

tests/middleware/tests.py

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@@ -383,11 +383,20 @@ class BrokenLinkEmailsMiddlewareTest(SimpleTestCase): 
        self.req.META['HTTP_REFERER'] = self.req.path

        BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware().process_response(self.req, self.resp)

        self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 0)



        # URL with scheme and domain should also be ignored

        self.req.META['HTTP_REFERER'] = 'http://testserver%s' % self.req.path

        BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware().process_response(self.req, self.resp)

        self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 0)



        # URL with a different scheme should be ignored as well because bots

        # tend to use http:// in referers even when browsing HTTPS websites.

        self.req.META['HTTP_X_PROTO'] = 'https'

        self.req.META['SERVER_PORT'] = 443

        with self.settings(SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER=('HTTP_X_PROTO', 'https')):

            BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware().process_response(self.req, self.resp)

        self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 0)



    def test_referer_equal_to_requested_url_on_another_domain(self):

        self.req.META['HTTP_REFERER'] = 'http://anotherserver%s' % self.req.path

        BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware().process_response(self.req, self.resp)