# This script determines if request is an HTML webpage and if so seeks out
# relative links () and expands them to absolute links
# In practice this can be used to front an indexing spider that may not have the capability to expand relative page links.
# Usage: mitmdump -s link_expander.py or mitmproxy -s link_expander.py
import re
from urllib.parse import urljoin
def response(flow):
if "Content-Type" in flow.response.headers and flow.response.headers["Content-Type"].find("text/html") != -1:
pageUrl = flow.request.url
pageText = flow.response.text
pattern = (r"]*?\s+)?href=(?P[\"'])"
r"(?P(?!https?:\/\/|ftps?:\/\/|\/\/|#|javascript:|mailto:).*?)(?P=delimiter)")
rel_matcher = re.compile(pattern, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
rel_matches = rel_matcher.finditer(pageText)
map_dict = {}
for match_num, match in enumerate(rel_matches):
(delimiter, rel_link) = match.group("delimiter", "link")
abs_link = urljoin(pageUrl, rel_link)
map_dict["{0}{1}{0}".format(delimiter, rel_link)] = "{0}{1}{0}".format(delimiter, abs_link)
for map in map_dict.items():
pageText = pageText.replace(*map)
# Uncomment the following to print the expansion mapping
# print("{0} -> {1}".format(*map))
flow.response.text = pageText