diff --git a/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb b/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb index fabbd244df9..b0c4e4f425e 100644 --- a/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb +++ b/app/lib/link_details_extractor.rb @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class LinkDetailsExtractor end def valid_url_or_nil(str, same_origin_only: false) - return if str.blank? + return if str.blank? || str == 'null' url = @original_url + Addressable::URI.parse(str) diff --git a/spec/lib/link_details_extractor_spec.rb b/spec/lib/link_details_extractor_spec.rb index 84bb4579caa..7ea867c614a 100644 --- a/spec/lib/link_details_extractor_spec.rb +++ b/spec/lib/link_details_extractor_spec.rb @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ RSpec.describe LinkDetailsExtractor do expect(subject.canonical_url).to eq 'https://foo.com/article' end end + + context 'when canonical URL is set to "null"' do + let(:html) { '' } + + it 'ignores the canonical URLs' do + expect(subject.canonical_url).to eq original_url + end + end end context 'when structured data is present' do