False positive: Full server-side request forgery
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Description
**Description of the false positive**
I have seen alerts for "Full server-side request forgery" (id: `py/full-ssrf`), even though the code has a valid mitigation in place. CodeQL also isn't recognizing other valid mitigations for this vulnerability.
For example, given this code:
```python
url = request.url.replace(request.host_url, "my-expected-host-url")
resp = requests.request(
url=url,
)
```
As you can see, this code is already using `request.url.replace` to control the requested URL and ensure that malicious requests cannot manipulate the destination of the request. However, CodeQL does not recognize this method as a valid mitigation for SSRF.
I also tried:
```python
from urllib.parse import urljoin
url = urljoin("my-expected-host-url", request.path)
```
CodeQL does not accept this approach either.
The only approach that CodeQL accepts is string concatenation:
```python
url = "my-expected-host-url" + request.path
```
Having to use string concatenation instead of `urljoin` is not ideal.
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