gh-99418: Make urllib.parse.urlparse enforce that a scheme must begin with an alphabetical ASCII character. (GH-99421)gentoo-3.8.16_p3

Prevent urllib.parse.urlparse from accepting schemes that don't begin with an alphabetical ASCII character.

RFC 3986 defines a scheme like this: `scheme = ALPHA *( ALPHA / DIGIT / "+" / "-" / "." )`
RFC 2234 defines an ALPHA like this: `ALPHA = %x41-5A / %x61-7A`

The WHATWG URL spec defines a scheme like this:
`"A URL-scheme string must be one ASCII alpha, followed by zero or more of ASCII alphanumeric, U+002B (+), U+002D (-), and U+002E (.)."`
(cherry picked from commit 439b9cfaf43080e91c4ad69f312f21fa098befc7)

Co-authored-by: Ben Kallus <49924171+kenballus@users.noreply.github.com>

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
index 0f99130f5da..03b5da1cf82 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -676,6 +676,24 @@ class UrlParseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
                             p.port
 
+    def test_attributes_bad_scheme(self):
+        """Check handling of invalid schemes."""
+        for bytes in (False, True):
+            for parse in (urllib.parse.urlsplit, urllib.parse.urlparse):
+                for scheme in (".", "+", "-", "0", "http&", "६http"):
+                    with self.subTest(bytes=bytes, parse=parse, scheme=scheme):
+                        url = scheme + "://www.example.net"
+                        if bytes:
+                            if url.isascii():
+                                url = url.encode("ascii")
+                            else:
+                                continue
+                        p = parse(url)
+                        if bytes:
+                            self.assertEqual(p.scheme, b"")
+                        else:
+                            self.assertEqual(p.scheme, "")
+
     def test_attributes_without_netloc(self):
         # This example is straight from RFC 3261.  It looks like it
         # should allow the username, hostname, and port to be filled
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
index f0d9d4d803c..0e388cb22db 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ def urlsplit(url, scheme='', allow_fragments=True):
         clear_cache()
     netloc = query = fragment = ''
     i = url.find(':')
-    if i > 0:
+    if i > 0 and url[0].isascii() and url[0].isalpha():
         if url[:i] == 'http': # optimize the common case
             url = url[i+1:]
             if url[:2] == '//':
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a06e7c5c6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix bug in :func:`urllib.parse.urlparse` that causes URL schemes that begin
+with a digit, a plus sign, or a minus sign to be parsed incorrectly.