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No RexExp parser #100

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No RexExp parser #100

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I have nothing against RegExps in general, but for security conscious code, there's too many pitfalls.

This pull-request is about converting from using mostly RegExp to using mostly native JavaScript code. The main cookie parser and the RFC-compliant date parser are most affected.

When tough-cookie was originally written, the RegExps were used because it seemed easier to maintain. This pull request certainly increases the code complexity, but does so in the hopes that maintaining the RegExps would have been more time-consuming in the long run.

As a bonus, it seems that the pure JavaScript version is about 1 to 2% faster than the RegExp one, based on the time it takes to run the entire tough-cookie test suite (7.0s versus 6.9s now).

Specifically to avoid any more hidden ReDoS in those regexes.

Seems to run tests in 6.9s vs 7.0s so might be a bit of a speed bonus on
some platforms!
Replaces a bunch of `[^\d]*$` with bounded `(?:[^\d]|$)`

Double checked the RFC6265 spec: time cannot have non-digits beside the
colons.
None of the regexps (at least, when they were removed) are vulnerable to
ReDoS. However, took this opportunity to check that the RFC is being
closer and more clearly documented where in the code.

Another way to put this: "regexps are magic and hinder code analysis"

Introduced some equivalence tests to ensure that certain "weird" dates
are indeed parsing the same as their "canonical" RFC6265 counterpart.
@awaterma awaterma self-requested a review December 18, 2017 04:41
@awaterma awaterma self-assigned this Dec 18, 2017
@stash stash merged commit 7564c06 into master Feb 24, 2018
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stash commented Feb 26, 2018

Integration tested request, jsdom, and zombie.

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awaterma commented Mar 5, 2018

Looks good. Thanks for merging.

wjhsf pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2024
* Winter '20 (API 47.0) prep

* 0.6.0

* use node LTS in CI

* Prerelease 0.6.1 (#98)

* 0.6.1-alpha1

* wip: synthetic shadow dep

* wip: add testEnvironment to preset

* update yargs for security alert (#90)

* update yargs for security alert

* fix test

* Bump eslint-utils from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2 (#89)

Bumps [eslint-utils](https://github.com/mysticatea/eslint-utils) from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/mysticatea/eslint-utils/releases)
- [Commits](mysticatea/eslint-utils@v1.3.1...v1.4.2)

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <[email protected]>

* Update input stub to support "autocomplete" property (#92)

* Update to include date-style and time-style attributes (#94)

* 0.6.1
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