Re: archive links broken with obfuscate=true

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong writes:
> 
> > Oops, I think the following fixes it, but not sure if there's a
> > better way to accomplish the same thing....
> 
> Thanks.  Jumping around a bit with that installed, I haven't spotted any
> remaining issues.

Thanks for the report.  Have you run any performance tests?

> > I worry the regexp change is susceptible to performance problems
> > from malicious inputs.  I can't remember if something like this
> > triggers a pathological case or not, or if I'm confusing this
> > with another quirk that does (or quirks of another RE engine)
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> > diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
> > index d20f70ae..6f1a046c 100644
> > --- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
> > +++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
> > @@ -82,15 +82,17 @@ sub obfuscate_addrs ($$;$) {
> >  	my $repl = $_[2] // '&#8226;';
> >  	my $re = $ibx->{-no_obfuscate_re}; # regex of domains
> >  	my $addrs = $ibx->{-no_obfuscate}; # { $address => 1 }
> > -	$_[1] =~ s/(([\w\.\+=\-]+)\@([\w\-]+\.[\w\.\-]+))/
> > -		my ($addr, $user, $domain) = ($1, $2, $3);
> > -		if ($addrs->{$addr} || ((defined $re && $domain =~ $re))) {
> > +	$_[1] =~ s#(\S*?)(([\w\.\+=\-]+)\@([\w\-]+\.[\w\.\-]+))#
> > +		my ($beg, $addr, $user, $domain) = ($1, $2, $3, $4);
> 
> ... what about allowing the first match to be {0,N}, where N is some not
> so huge value?  It'd risk incorrectly obfuscating some really long
> links, but given that it's just the HTML presentation, that seems
> acceptable.

I'm actually more worried about the '0' (of '{0,}') or '*' being
combined with '?'.  I can't remember if there's a pathological
case in that...

The upper bound of N is a smaller concern, especially for
non-spam messages which only have non-space tokens of reasonable
length.

Maybe changing the three existing '+' to {1,M} would be a way to
ameliorate the problem (though I'm not sure what a good value of
M would be, 255?).

OTOH, it may not be an actual problem at all and I'm just
confusing this with something else.