import Posts from '../collection.js'; import escapeStringRegexp from 'escape-string-regexp'; Picker.route('/out', function(params, req, res, next) { var query = params.query; if(query.url){ // for some reason, query.url doesn't need to be decoded /* If the URL passed to ?url= is in plain text, any hash fragment will get stripped out. So we search for any post whose URL contains the current URL to get a match even without the hash */ const post = Posts.findOne({url: {$regex: escapeStringRegexp(query.url)}}); if (post) { var ip = req.headers && req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || req.connection.remoteAddress; Posts.methods.increaseClicks(post._id, ip); res.writeHead(301, {'Location': query.url}); res.end(); } else { // don't redirect if we can't find a post for that link res.end('Invalid URL'); } } else { res.end("Please provide a URL"); } });