Java: queries about user-controlled URLs should be sanitized by enforcing a prefix
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This comes from a discussion with @smowton over [here](https://github.com/github/securitylab-bounties/issues/92).
Certain categories such as Open Redirect, SSRF and Android WebView URL injection will benefit from a sanitizer which would clean the taint in case the dataflow goes through a string prefix operation (concatenation, format strings, string buffers, string writer ...). Since not controlling the begging of the URL will severely decrease the exploitability of these issues.
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