metamaps--metamaps/app/controllers/hacks_controller.rb

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# bad code that should be seriously checked over before entering one of the
# other prim and proper files in the nice section of this repo
class HacksController < ApplicationController
include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper # string truncate method
def load_url_title
authorize :Hack
url = params[:url] # TODO verify!?!?!?!
response, url = get_with_redirects(url)
title = get_encoded_title(response)
render json: { success: true, title: title, url: url }
rescue StandardError => e
render json: { success: false, error_type: e.class.name, error_message: e.message }
end
private
def get_with_redirects(url)
uri = URI.parse(url)
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
while response.code == '301'
uri = URI.parse(response['location'])
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
end
[response, uri.to_s]
end
def get_encoded_title(http_response)
title = http_response.body.sub(/.*<title>(.*)<\/title>.*/m, '\1')
charset = http_response['content-type'].sub(/.*charset=(.*);?.*/, '\1')
charset = nil if charset == 'text/html'
title = title.force_encoding(charset) if charset
truncate(title, length: 140)
end
end