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Cant we avoid the HEAD request and just check on the content-type header before we load cheerio with the response body. Relevant code: https://github.com/gabceb/node-metainspector/blob/master/index.js#L307 |
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When provided a URI that is not a valid text/html document, passing the data into cheerio can result in a call stack overflow.
This modification performs a HEAD request first & verifies that the URI content-type response header contains 'text/html'. If it does not, the meta inspector will emit an invalid data type error.