From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:10:27 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mdlinkcheck: reject URLs containing quotes
X-Git-Tag: rc-8_17_0-3~304
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71b5e025903e2e6a7f4f2309a7e2930fed96fc0a;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

mdlinkcheck: reject URLs containing quotes

Those would be illegal anyway and would make the script misbehave

Reported-by: Stanislav Fort
Closes #18889
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diff --git a/scripts/mdlinkcheck b/scripts/mdlinkcheck
index 925edc5294..bbd6ac4602 100755
--- a/scripts/mdlinkcheck
+++ b/scripts/mdlinkcheck
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ sub checkurl {
     print "check $url\n";
     my $curlcmd="curl -ILfsm10 --retry 2 --retry-delay 5 -A \"Mozilla/curl.se link-probe\"";
     $url =~ s/\+/%2B/g;
+    if($url =~ /[\"\'\n]/) {
+        print STDERR "Bad URL in markdown: %s\n", $url{$url};
+        return 1; # fail
+    }
     my @content = `$curlcmd \"$url\"`;
     if(!$content[0]) {
         print STDERR "FAIL\n";