Avoid the regular expression engine in parsing rule targets.

I read in the bible (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets) that:

"""
To cover all of a domain's subdomains, you may want to specify a
wildcard target like *.twitter.com. Specifying this type of left-side
wildcard matches any host name with .twitter.com as a suffix, e.g.
www.twitter.com or urls.api.twitter.com. You can also specify a
right-side wildcard like www.google.*. Right-side wildcards, unlike
left-side wildcards, apply only one level deep. So if you want to
cover all countries you'll generally need to specify www.google.*,
www.google.co.*, and www.google.com.* to cover domains like
www.google.co.uk or www.google.com.au.
"""

The previous interpretation is both incorrect (because right wildcards
only apply one level deep) and potentially expensive (regular
expression matching is exponential in the worst-case.)

https-everywhere-rules.cabal

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ library
     functor-infix      >= 0.0  && < 0.1,
     http-client        >= 0.3  && < 0.6,
     lens               >= 4.3  && < 4.16,
+    mtl                >= 2.2  && < 2.3,
     network            >= 2.6  && < 2.7,
     network-uri        >= 2.6  && < 2.7,
     pipes              >= 4.1  && < 4.4,
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ test-suite spec
     hspec              >= 2.0  && < 2.5,
     http-client        >= 0.3  && < 0.6,
     lens               >= 4.3  && < 4.16,
+    mtl                >= 2.2  && < 2.3,
     network            >= 2.6  && < 2.7,
     network-uri        >= 2.6  && < 2.7,
     pipes              >= 4.1  && < 4.4,

src/Data/HTTPSEverywhere/Rules/Internal/Parser.hs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE CPP                 #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings   #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards     #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE LambdaCase          #-}
 
 module Data.HTTPSEverywhere.Rules.Internal.Parser (
   parseRuleSets,
@@ -9,15 +10,18 @@ module Data.HTTPSEverywhere.Rules.Internal.Parser (
 #endif
 ) where
 
-import Prelude hiding (head, last, tail, init, length)
+import Prelude hiding (take, drop)
 import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
 import Control.Lens (toListOf, only, to, (^..), (^.), (&), (<&>), _Just)
 import Control.Monad (join)
+import Control.Monad.State (State, evalState, modify', gets)
+import Data.Bifunctor (bimap)
+import Data.Bool (bool)
 import Data.Functor.Infix ((<$$>))
-import Data.Maybe (catMaybes, fromJust, fromMaybe)
+import Data.Maybe (catMaybes)
 import Data.String.Conversions (cs)
 import qualified Data.Text as Strict (Text)
-import Data.Text (append, head, last, tail, init, replace, length)
+import Data.Text (dropEnd, dropWhileEnd, drop, isSuffixOf, takeEnd, take)
 import qualified Data.Text.Lazy as Lazy (Text)
 import Network.HTTP.Client (Cookie(..))
 import Network.URI (URI(uriAuthority), URIAuth(uriRegName), parseURI)
@@ -37,15 +41,21 @@ parseRuleSet xml = xml ^. attr "name" <&> \ruleSetName -> do
       ruleSetCookieRules = xml ^.. allNamed (only "securecookie") . to parseCookieRule & catMaybes
   RuleSet ruleSetName ruleSetTargets ruleSetRules ruleSetExclusions ruleSetCookieRules
 
+parseTarget' :: State (Strict.Text, Strict.Text) Bool
+parseTarget' = do
+  gets ((== ".*") . takeEnd 2 . fst) >>= bool (return ())
+    (modify' (bimap (dropEnd 2) (dropEnd 1 . dropWhileEnd (/= '.'))))
+  gets (take 2 . fst) >>= \case
+    "*." -> do
+      suffix <- gets (drop 1 . fst) -- Don't drop the dot, we expect some prefix.
+      isSuffixOf suffix <$> gets snd
+    _ -> gets (uncurry (==))
+
 parseTarget :: Strict.Text -> Target
-parseTarget = Target . checkRegName . fromJust . match . fromWildcard . replace "." "\\."
+parseTarget target = Target $ \uri -> do
-  where fromWildcard str
+  case uriRegName <$> uriAuthority uri of
-          | length str == 0 = str
+    Just domain -> evalState parseTarget' (target, cs domain)
-          | head str == '*' = flip append ".*" $ tail str
+    Nothing -> False
-          | last str == '*' = append ".*" $ init str
-          | otherwise       = str
-        checkRegName predicate = fromMaybe False . (predicate <$$> getRegName)
-        getRegName = cs . uriRegName <$$> uriAuthority
 
 parseRule :: Element -> Maybe Rule
 parseRule element = do

test/Data/HTTPSEverywhere/Rules/Internal/ParserSpec.hs

@@ -22,11 +22,16 @@ spec = do
     it "*.facebook.com should match s-static.ak.facebook.com" $ do
       let url = unsafeParseURL "http://s-static.ak.facebook.com"
       checkTarget "*.facebook.com" url `shouldBe` True
-    it "google.* should match google.com.id" $ do
+    it "google.* should match google.nl" $ do
-      let url = unsafeParseURL "http://google.com.id"
+      let url = unsafeParseURL "http://google.nl"
       checkTarget "google.*" url `shouldBe` True
-    it "*.google.* should not match google.com.id" $ do
+    -- Right-side wildcards apply only one-level deep.
+    it "google.* should not match google.com.id" $ do
       let url = unsafeParseURL "http://google.com.id"
+      checkTarget "google.*" url `shouldBe` False
+    -- Wildcards expect there exist some prefix.
+    it "*.google.* should not match google.nl" $ do
+      let url = unsafeParseURL "http://google.nl"
       checkTarget "*.google.*" url `shouldBe` False
   describe "parseRuleSets" $ do
     let rulesets = parseRuleSets fixture