net/url: reject colon in first segment of relative path in Parse

RFC 3986 §3.3 disallows relative URL paths in which the first segment
contains a colon, presumably to avoid confusion with scheme:foo syntax,
which is exactly what happened in #16822.

Fixes #16822.

Change-Id: Ie4449e1dd21c5e56e3b126e086c3a0b05da7ff24
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31582Reviewed-by: Quentin Smith <quentin@golang.org>

src/net/url/url.go

@@ -503,6 +503,19 @@ func parse(rawurl string, viaRequest bool) (*URL, error) {
 		if viaRequest {
 			return nil, errors.New("invalid URI for request")
 		}
+
+		// Avoid confusion with malformed schemes, like cache_object:foo/bar.
+		// See golang.org/issue/16822.
+		//
+		// RFC 3986, §3.3:
+		// In addition, a URI reference (Section 4.1) may be a relative-path reference,
+		// in which case the first path segment cannot contain a colon (":") character.
+		colon := strings.Index(rest, ":")
+		slash := strings.Index(rest, "/")
+		if colon >= 0 && (slash < 0 || colon < slash) {
+			// First path segment has colon. Not allowed in relative URL.
+			return nil, errors.New("first path segment in URL cannot contain colon")
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (url.Scheme != "" || !viaRequest && !strings.HasPrefix(rest, "///")) && strings.HasPrefix(rest, "//") {

src/net/url/url_test.go

@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ func TestParseFailure(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestParseAuthority(t *testing.T) {
+func TestParseErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		in      string
 		wantErr bool
@@ -1405,9 +1405,13 @@ func TestParseAuthority(t *testing.T) {
 		{"http://%41:8080/", true},        // not allowed: % encoding only for non-ASCII
 		{"mysql://x@y(z:123)/foo", false}, // golang.org/issue/12023
 		{"mysql://x@y(1.2.3.4:123)/foo", false},
-		{"mysql://x@y([2001:db8::1]:123)/foo", false},
+
 		{"http://[]%20%48%54%54%50%2f%31%2e%31%0a%4d%79%48%65%61%64%65%72%3a%20%31%32%33%0a%0a/", true}, // golang.org/issue/11208
 		{"http://a b.com/", true},                                                                       // no space in host name please
+		{"cache_object://foo", true},                                                                    // scheme cannot have _, relative path cannot have : in first segment
+		{"cache_object:foo", true},
+		{"cache_object:foo/bar", true},
+		{"cache_object/:foo/bar", false},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		u, err := Parse(tt.in)