function check_url

Same name in other branches
  1. 7.x includes/common.inc \check_url()

Strips dangerous protocols from a URI and encodes it for output to HTML.

Parameters

$uri: A plain-text URI that might contain dangerous protocols.

Return value

string A URI stripped of dangerous protocols and encoded for output to an HTML attribute value. Because it is already encoded, it should not be set as a value within a $attributes array passed to Drupal\Core\Template\Attribute, because Drupal\Core\Template\Attribute expects those values to be plain-text strings. To pass a filtered URI to Drupal\Core\Template\Attribute, call \Drupal\Component\Utility\UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols() instead.

Deprecated

in drupal:8.0.0 and is removed from drupal:9.0.0. Use UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols() or UrlHelper::filterBadProtocol() instead. UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols() can be used in conjunction with \Drupal\Component\Render\FormattableMarkup and an @variable placeholder which will perform the necessary escaping. UrlHelper::filterBadProtocol() is functionality equivalent to check_url() apart from the fact it is protected from double escaping bugs. Note that this method no longer marks its output as safe.

See also

\Drupal\Component\Utility\UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols()

\Drupal\Component\Utility\UrlHelper::filterBadProtocol()

https://www.drupal.org/node/2560027

Related topics

Sanitization functions
Functions to sanitize values.
1 call to check_url()
XssUnitTest::testCheckUrl in core/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Common/XssUnitTest.php
Tests deprecation of the check_url() function.

File

core/includes/common.inc, line 227

Code

function check_url($uri) {
    @trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ . '() is deprecated in Drupal 8.0.0 and will be removed before Drupal 9.0.0. Use UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols() or UrlHelper::filterBadProtocol() instead. See https://www.drupal.org/node/2560027', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
    return Html::escape(UrlHelper::stripDangerousProtocols($uri));
}

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