Attempt different character encodings when previewing a URL. (#11077)

This follows similar logic to BeautifulSoup where we attempt different
character encodings until we find one which works.
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Fix a long-standing bug when attempting to preview URLs which are in the `windows-1252` character encoding.

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@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
with open(media_info.filename, "rb") as file:
body = file.read()
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(body, media_info.media_type)
tree = decode_body(body, encoding)
tree = decode_body(body, media_info.uri, media_info.media_type)
if tree is not None:
# Check if this HTML document points to oEmbed information and
# defer to that.
@ -632,16 +631,19 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
logger.debug("No media removed from url cache")
def get_html_media_encoding(body: bytes, content_type: str) -> str:
def get_html_media_encodings(body: bytes, content_type: Optional[str]) -> Iterable[str]:
"""
Get the encoding of the body based on the (presumably) HTML body or media_type.
Get potential encoding of the body based on the (presumably) HTML body or the content-type header.
The precedence used for finding a character encoding is:
1. meta tag with a charset declared.
1. <meta> tag with a charset declared.
2. The XML document's character encoding attribute.
3. The Content-Type header.
4. Fallback to UTF-8.
4. Fallback to utf-8.
5. Fallback to windows-1252.
This roughly follows the algorithm used by BeautifulSoup's bs4.dammit.EncodingDetector.
Args:
body: The HTML document, as bytes.
@ -653,36 +655,39 @@ def get_html_media_encoding(body: bytes, content_type: str) -> str:
# Limit searches to the first 1kb, since it ought to be at the top.
body_start = body[:1024]
# Let's try and figure out if it has an encoding set in a meta tag.
# Check if it has an encoding set in a meta tag.
match = _charset_match.search(body_start)
if match:
return match.group(1).decode("ascii")
yield match.group(1).decode("ascii")
# TODO Support <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
# If we didn't find a match, see if it an XML document with an encoding.
# Check if it has an XML document with an encoding.
match = _xml_encoding_match.match(body_start)
if match:
return match.group(1).decode("ascii")
yield match.group(1).decode("ascii")
# If we don't find a match, we'll look at the HTTP Content-Type, and
# if that doesn't exist, we'll fall back to UTF-8.
content_match = _content_type_match.match(content_type)
if content_match:
return content_match.group(1)
# Check the HTTP Content-Type header for a character set.
if content_type:
content_match = _content_type_match.match(content_type)
if content_match:
yield content_match.group(1)
return "utf-8"
# Finally, fallback to UTF-8, then windows-1252.
yield "utf-8"
yield "windows-1252"
def decode_body(
body: bytes, request_encoding: Optional[str] = None
body: bytes, uri: str, content_type: Optional[str] = None
) -> Optional["etree.Element"]:
"""
This uses lxml to parse the HTML document.
Args:
body: The HTML document, as bytes.
request_encoding: The character encoding of the body, as a string.
uri: The URI used to download the body.
content_type: The Content-Type header.
Returns:
The parsed HTML body, or None if an error occurred during processed.
@ -691,32 +696,25 @@ def decode_body(
if not body:
return None
from lxml import etree
# Create an HTML parser. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
try:
parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding=request_encoding)
except LookupError:
# blindly consider the encoding as utf-8.
parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding="utf-8")
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Unable to create HTML parser: %s" % (e,))
for encoding in get_html_media_encodings(body, content_type):
try:
body_str = body.decode(encoding)
except Exception:
pass
else:
break
else:
logger.warning("Unable to decode HTML body for %s", uri)
return None
def _attempt_decode_body(
body_attempt: Union[bytes, str]
) -> Optional["etree.Element"]:
# Attempt to parse the body. Returns None if the body was successfully
# parsed, but no tree was found.
return etree.fromstring(body_attempt, parser)
from lxml import etree
# Attempt to parse the body. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
try:
return _attempt_decode_body(body)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
# blindly try decoding the body as utf-8, which seems to fix
# the charset mismatches on https://google.com
return _attempt_decode_body(body.decode("utf-8", "ignore"))
# Create an HTML parser.
parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding="utf-8")
# Attempt to parse the body. Returns None if the body was successfully
# parsed, but no tree was found.
return etree.fromstring(body_str, parser)
def _calc_og(tree: "etree.Element", media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:

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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
from synapse.rest.media.v1.preview_url_resource import (
_calc_og,
decode_body,
get_html_media_encoding,
get_html_media_encodings,
summarize_paragraphs,
)
@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(
@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": None, "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Title", "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": None, "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -268,13 +268,13 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_empty(self):
"""Test a body with no data in it."""
html = b""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertIsNone(tree)
def test_no_tree(self):
"""A valid body with no tree in it."""
html = b"\x00"
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertIsNone(tree)
def test_invalid_encoding(self):
@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</body>
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html, "invalid-encoding")
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html", "invalid-encoding")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
@ -302,15 +302,29 @@ class CalcOgTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
</body>
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html)
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "ÿÿ Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
def test_windows_1252(self):
"""A body which uses windows-1252, but doesn't declare that."""
html = b"""
<html>
<head><title>\xf3</title></head>
<body>
Some text.
</body>
</html>
"""
tree = decode_body(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
og = _calc_og(tree, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "ó", "og:description": "Some text."})
class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_meta_charset(self):
"""A character encoding is found via the meta tag."""
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(
b"""
<html>
<head><meta charset="ascii">
@ -319,10 +333,10 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""",
"text/html",
)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "ascii")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["ascii", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
# A less well-formed version.
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(
b"""
<html>
<head>< meta charset = ascii>
@ -331,11 +345,11 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""",
"text/html",
)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "ascii")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["ascii", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
def test_meta_charset_underscores(self):
"""A character encoding contains underscore."""
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(
b"""
<html>
<head><meta charset="Shift_JIS">
@ -344,11 +358,11 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""",
"text/html",
)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "Shift_JIS")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["Shift_JIS", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
def test_xml_encoding(self):
"""A character encoding is found via the meta tag."""
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(
b"""
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?>
<html>
@ -356,11 +370,11 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""",
"text/html",
)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "ascii")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["ascii", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
def test_meta_xml_encoding(self):
"""Meta tags take precedence over XML encoding."""
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(
b"""
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?>
<html>
@ -370,7 +384,7 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""",
"text/html",
)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "UTF-16")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["UTF-16", "ascii", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
def test_content_type(self):
"""A character encoding is found via the Content-Type header."""
@ -384,10 +398,10 @@ class MediaEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
'text/html; charset=ascii";',
)
for header in headers:
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(b"", header)
self.assertEqual(encoding, "ascii")
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(b"", header)
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["ascii", "utf-8", "windows-1252"])
def test_fallback(self):
"""A character encoding cannot be found in the body or header."""
encoding = get_html_media_encoding(b"", "text/html")
self.assertEqual(encoding, "utf-8")
encodings = get_html_media_encodings(b"", "text/html")
self.assertEqual(list(encodings), ["utf-8", "windows-1252"])