[aur-dev] [PATCH] use rel="nofollow" for links in comments

Daniel Micay danielmicay at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 15:46:44 UTC 2015


This removes the incentive for spammers to post links by asking search
engines to ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com>
---
 web/lib/aur.inc.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web/lib/aur.inc.php b/web/lib/aur.inc.php
index 7a455c6..b410db5 100644
--- a/web/lib/aur.inc.php
+++ b/web/lib/aur.inc.php
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ function parse_comment($comment) {
 		if ($i % 2) {
 			# convert links
 			$html .= '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($matches[$i]) .
-				'">' .	htmlspecialchars($matches[$i]) . '</a>';
+				'" rel="nofollow">' .	htmlspecialchars($matches[$i]) . '</a>';
 		}
 		else {
 			# convert everything else
-- 
2.4.5


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