try to skip links in <script> tags

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt
index 000384f..94c4b6a 100644
--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ svn trunk
   which sets the ``Content-Type`` of the request.  This is more
   convenient when testing REST APIs.
 
+* Skip links in ``<script>...</script>`` tags (since that's not real
+  markup).
+
 1.0.2
 -----
 
diff --git a/webtest/__init__.py b/webtest/__init__.py
index 7496115..d02a3bd 100644
--- a/webtest/__init__.py
+++ b/webtest/__init__.py
@@ -550,6 +550,10 @@ class TestResponse(Response):
 
         _tag_re = re.compile(r'<%s\s+(.*?)>(.*?)</%s>' % (tag, tag),
                              re.I+re.S)
+        _script_re = re.compile(r'<script.*?>.*?</script>', re.I|re.S)
+        bad_spans = []
+        for match in _script_re.finditer(self.body):
+            bad_spans.append((match.start(), match.end()))
 
         def printlog(s):
             if verbose:
@@ -558,6 +562,14 @@ class TestResponse(Response):
         found_links = []
         total_links = 0
         for match in _tag_re.finditer(self.body):
+            found_bad = False
+            for bad_start, bad_end in bad_spans:
+                if (match.start() > bad_start 
+                    and match.end() < bad_end):
+                    found_bad = True
+                    break
+            if found_bad:
+                continue
             el_html = match.group(0)
             el_attr = match.group(1)
             el_content = match.group(2)