Encode URIs during server rendering of <a href>/<form action> to avoi… (#10769)

* Encode URIs during server rendering of <a href>/<form action> to avoid hydration issues

* Bump bundle

* Update approach

* bump bundle

* Remove absolute url check

* Update packages/react-router-dom/index.tsx

* Change approach to properly encode in encodeLocation

Author: brophdawg11

.changeset/encode-uri-ssr.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"react-router-dom": patch
+---
+
+Proeprly encode rendered URIs in server rendering to avoid hydration errors

packages/react-router-dom-v5-compat/lib/components.tsx

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ export interface StaticRouterProps {
   location: Partial<Location> | string;
 }
 
+const ABSOLUTE_URL_REGEX = /^(?:[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:|\/\/)/i;
+
 /**
  * A <Router> that may not navigate to any other location. This is useful
  * on the server where there is no stateful UI.
@@ -93,11 +95,14 @@ export function StaticRouter({
       return typeof to === "string" ? to : createPath(to);
     },
     encodeLocation(to: To) {
-      let path = typeof to === "string" ? parsePath(to) : to;
+      let href = typeof to === "string" ? to : createPath(to);
+      let encoded = ABSOLUTE_URL_REGEX.test(href)
+        ? new URL(href)
+        : new URL(href, "http://localhost");
       return {
-        pathname: path.pathname || "",
-        search: path.search || "",
-        hash: path.hash || "",
+        pathname: encoded.pathname,
+        search: encoded.search,
+        hash: encoded.hash,
       };
     },
     push(to: To) {

packages/react-router-dom/__tests__/data-static-router-test.tsx

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as React from "react";
 import * as ReactDOMServer from "react-dom/server";
 import { json } from "@remix-run/router";
 import {
+  Form,
   Link,
   Outlet,
   useLoaderData,
@@ -511,6 +512,123 @@ describe("A <StaticRouterProvider>", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("encodes auto-generated <a href> values to avoid hydration errors", async () => {
+    let routes = [{ path: "/path/:param", element: <Link to=".">👋</Link> }];
+    let { query } = createStaticHandler(routes);
+
+    let context = (await query(
+      new Request("http://localhost/path/with space", {
+        signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      })
+    )) as StaticHandlerContext;
+
+    let html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <React.StrictMode>
+        <StaticRouterProvider
+          router={createStaticRouter(routes, context)}
+          context={context}
+        />
+      </React.StrictMode>
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain('<a href="/path/with%20space">👋</a>');
+  });
+
+  it("does not encode user-specified <a href> values", async () => {
+    let routes = [
+      { path: "/", element: <Link to="/path/with space">👋</Link> },
+    ];
+    let { query } = createStaticHandler(routes);
+
+    let context = (await query(
+      new Request("http://localhost/", {
+        signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      })
+    )) as StaticHandlerContext;
+
+    let html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <React.StrictMode>
+        <StaticRouterProvider
+          router={createStaticRouter(routes, context)}
+          context={context}
+        />
+      </React.StrictMode>
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain('<a href="/path/with space">👋</a>');
+  });
+
+  it("encodes auto-generated <form action> values to avoid hydration errors (action=undefined)", async () => {
+    let routes = [{ path: "/path/:param", element: <Form>👋</Form> }];
+    let { query } = createStaticHandler(routes);
+
+    let context = (await query(
+      new Request("http://localhost/path/with space", {
+        signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      })
+    )) as StaticHandlerContext;
+
+    let html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <React.StrictMode>
+        <StaticRouterProvider
+          router={createStaticRouter(routes, context)}
+          context={context}
+        />
+      </React.StrictMode>
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain(
+      '<form method="get" action="/path/with%20space">👋</form>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('encodes auto-generated <form action> values to avoid hydration errors (action=".")', async () => {
+    let routes = [
+      { path: "/path/:param", element: <Form action=".">👋</Form> },
+    ];
+    let { query } = createStaticHandler(routes);
+
+    let context = (await query(
+      new Request("http://localhost/path/with space", {
+        signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      })
+    )) as StaticHandlerContext;
+
+    let html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <React.StrictMode>
+        <StaticRouterProvider
+          router={createStaticRouter(routes, context)}
+          context={context}
+        />
+      </React.StrictMode>
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain(
+      '<form method="get" action="/path/with%20space">👋</form>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("does not encode user-specified <form action> values", async () => {
+    let routes = [
+      { path: "/", element: <Form action="/path/with space">👋</Form> },
+    ];
+    let { query } = createStaticHandler(routes);
+
+    let context = (await query(
+      new Request("http://localhost/", {
+        signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      })
+    )) as StaticHandlerContext;
+
+    let html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <React.StrictMode>
+        <StaticRouterProvider
+          router={createStaticRouter(routes, context)}
+          context={context}
+        />
+      </React.StrictMode>
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain(
+      '<form method="get" action="/path/with space">👋</form>'
+    );
+  });
+
   it("serializes ErrorResponse instances", async () => {
     let routes = [
       {

packages/react-router-dom/server.tsx

@@ -348,15 +348,19 @@ function createHref(to: To) {
 }
 
 function encodeLocation(to: To): Path {
-  // Locations should already be encoded on the server, so just return as-is
-  let path = typeof to === "string" ? parsePath(to) : to;
+  let href = typeof to === "string" ? to : createPath(to);
+  let encoded = ABSOLUTE_URL_REGEX.test(href)
+    ? new URL(href)
+    : new URL(href, "http://localhost");
   return {
-    pathname: path.pathname || "",
-    search: path.search || "",
-    hash: path.hash || "",
+    pathname: encoded.pathname,
+    search: encoded.search,
+    hash: encoded.hash,
   };
 }
 
+const ABSOLUTE_URL_REGEX = /^(?:[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:|\/\/)/i;
+
 // This utility is based on https://github.com/zertosh/htmlescape
 // License: https://github.com/zertosh/htmlescape/blob/0527ca7156a524d256101bb310a9f970f63078ad/LICENSE
 const ESCAPE_LOOKUP: { [match: string]: string } = {