add missing schema in utils.http.sanitise_url, use in rss.py

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utils/http.py b/src/utils/http.py
index 6ee7fdc3..531c24fc 100644
--- a/src/utils/http.py
+++ b/src/utils/http.py
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ REGEX_URL = re.compile("https?://[A-Z0-9{}]+".format(re.escape("-._~:/%?#[]@!$&'
 
 # best-effort tidying up of URLs
 def url_sanitise(url: str):
+    if not urllib.parse.urlparse(url).scheme:
+        url = "http://%s" % url
+
     if url.endswith(")"):
         # trim ")" from the end only if there's not a "(" to match it
         # google.com/) -> google.com/