Revert "Improve handling/escaping of a few possible html entities for posts titles (&) - does not fix backend, only frontend display (#2087)"

This reverts commit 8977b5353a.

src/shared/components/post/metadata-card.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { Component } from "inferno";
 import { Post } from "lemmy-js-client";
 import * as sanitizeHtml from "sanitize-html";
-import { unescapeHTML } from "@utils/helpers";
 import { relTags } from "../../config";
 import { Icon } from "../common/icon";
 
@@ -26,21 +25,17 @@ export class MetadataCard extends Component<MetadataCardProps> {
                 {post.name !== post.embed_title && (
                   <>
                     <h5 className="card-title d-inline">
-                      <a
-                        className="text-body"
-                        href={unescapeHTML(post.url)}
-                        rel={relTags}
-                      >
-                        {unescapeHTML(post.embed_title)}
+                      <a className="text-body" href={post.url} rel={relTags}>
+                        {post.embed_title}
                       </a>
                     </h5>
                     <span className="d-inline-block ms-2 mb-2 small text-muted">
                       <a
                         className="text-muted fst-italic"
-                        href={unescapeHTML(post.url)}
+                        href={post.url}
                         rel={relTags}
                       >
-                        {new URL(unescapeHTML(post.url)).hostname}
+                        {new URL(post.url).hostname}
                         <Icon icon="external-link" classes="ms-1" />
                       </a>
                     </span>

src/shared/components/post/post-listing.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import {
   capitalizeFirstLetter,
   futureDaysToUnixTime,
   hostname,
-  unescapeHTML,
 } from "@utils/helpers";
 import { isImage, isVideo } from "@utils/media";
 import {
@@ -207,9 +206,9 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
           <>
             {this.listing()}
             {this.state.imageExpanded && !this.props.hideImage && this.img}
-            {this.showBody &&
-              unescapeHTML(post.url) &&
-              unescapeHTML(post.embed_title) && <MetadataCard post={post} />}
+            {this.showBody && post.url && post.embed_title && (
+              <MetadataCard post={post} />
+            )}
             {this.showBody && this.body()}
           </>
         ) : (
@@ -286,8 +285,8 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
           <iframe
             allowFullScreen
             className="post-metadata-iframe"
-            src={unescapeHTML(post.embed_video_url)}
-            title={unescapeHTML(post.embed_title)}
+            src={post.embed_video_url}
+            title={post.embed_title}
           ></iframe>
         </div>
       );
@@ -310,7 +309,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
 
   get imageSrc(): string | undefined {
     const post = this.postView.post;
-    const url = unescapeHTML(post.url);
+    const url = post.url;
     const thumbnail = post.thumbnail_url;
 
     if (thumbnail) {
@@ -324,7 +323,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
 
   thumbnail() {
     const post = this.postView.post;
-    const url = unescapeHTML(post.url);
+    const url = post.url;
     const thumbnail = post.thumbnail_url;
 
     if (!this.props.hideImage && url && isImage(url) && this.imageSrc) {
@@ -450,7 +449,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
       >
         <span
           className="d-inline"
-          dangerouslySetInnerHTML={mdToHtmlInline(unescapeHTML(post.name))}
+          dangerouslySetInnerHTML={mdToHtmlInline(post.name)}
         />
       </Link>
     );
@@ -458,7 +457,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
 
   postTitleLine() {
     const post = this.postView.post;
-    const url = unescapeHTML(post.url);
+    const url = post.url;
 
     return (
       <>
@@ -474,9 +473,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
                 href={url}
                 title={url}
                 rel={relTags}
-                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={mdToHtmlInline(
-                  unescapeHTML(post.name),
-                )}
+                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={mdToHtmlInline(post.name)}
               ></a>
             ) : (
               this.postLink
@@ -489,7 +486,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
            * MetadataCard/body toggle.
            */}
           {!this.props.showBody &&
-            (unescapeHTML(post.url && post.embed_title) || post.body) &&
+            ((post.url && post.embed_title) || post.body) &&
             this.showPreviewButton()}
 
           {post.removed && (
@@ -551,7 +548,7 @@ export class PostListing extends Component<PostListingProps, PostListingState> {
 
   urlLine() {
     const post = this.postView.post;
-    const url = unescapeHTML(post.url);
+    const url = post.url;
 
     return (
       <p className="small m-0">

src/shared/components/post/post.tsx

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import {
   restoreScrollPosition,
   saveScrollPosition,
 } from "@utils/browser";
-import { debounce, randomStr, unescapeHTML } from "@utils/helpers";
+import { debounce, randomStr } from "@utils/helpers";
 import { isImage } from "@utils/media";
 import { RouteDataResponse } from "@utils/types";
 import autosize from "autosize";
@@ -325,9 +325,8 @@ export class Post extends Component<any, PostState> {
 
   get documentTitle(): string {
     const siteName = this.state.siteRes.site_view.site.name;
-    const postTitle = unescapeHTML(this.state.postRes.data.post_view.post.name);
     return this.state.postRes.state === "success"
-      ? `${postTitle} - ${siteName}`
+      ? `${this.state.postRes.data.post_view.post.name} - ${siteName}`
       : siteName;
   }
 

src/shared/utils/helpers/html-entities.ts

@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-const matchEscHtmlRx = /["'&<>]/;
-const matchUnEscRx = /&(?:amp|#38|lt|#60|gt|#62|apos|#39|quot|#34);/g;
-
-export function escapeHTML(str: string): string {
-  const matchEscHtml = matchEscHtmlRx.exec(str);
-  if (!matchEscHtml) {
-    return str;
-  }
-  let escape;
-  let html = "";
-  let index = 0;
-  let lastIndex = 0;
-  for (index = matchEscHtml.index; index < str.length; index++) {
-    switch (str.charCodeAt(index)) {
-      case 34: // "
-        escape = "&quot;";
-        break;
-      case 38: // &
-        escape = "&amp;";
-        break;
-      case 39: // '
-        escape = "&#39;";
-        break;
-      case 60: // <
-        escape = "&lt;";
-        break;
-      case 62: // >
-        escape = "&gt;";
-        break;
-      default:
-        continue;
-    }
-
-    if (lastIndex !== index) {
-      html += str.substring(lastIndex, index);
-    }
-
-    lastIndex = index + 1;
-    html += escape;
-  }
-
-  return lastIndex !== index ? html + str.substring(lastIndex, index) : html;
-}
-
-export function unescapeHTML(str: string): string {
-  const matchUnEsc = matchUnEscRx.exec(str);
-  if (!matchUnEsc) {
-    return str;
-  }
-
-  const res = str
-    .replace(/&quot;/g, '"')
-    .replace(/&#39;/g, "'")
-    .replace(/&#x3A;/g, ":")
-    .replace(/&lt;/g, "<")
-    .replace(/&gt;/g, ">")
-    .replace(/&amp;/g, "&");
-
-  return unescapeHTML(res);
-}

src/shared/utils/helpers/index.ts

@@ -18,19 +18,16 @@ import numToSI from "./num-to-si";
 import poll from "./poll";
 import randomStr from "./random-str";
 import removeAuthParam from "./remove-auth-param";
-import returnStringFromString from "./return-str";
 import sleep from "./sleep";
 import validEmail from "./valid-email";
 import validInstanceTLD from "./valid-instance-tld";
 import validTitle from "./valid-title";
 import validURL from "./valid-url";
-import { escapeHTML, unescapeHTML } from "./html-entities";
 
 export {
   capitalizeFirstLetter,
   debounce,
   editListImmutable,
-  escapeHTML,
   formatPastDate,
   futureDaysToUnixTime,
   getIdFromString,
@@ -48,9 +45,7 @@ export {
   poll,
   randomStr,
   removeAuthParam,
-  returnStringFromString,
   sleep,
-  unescapeHTML,
   validEmail,
   validInstanceTLD,
   validTitle,