From 2e5ad90213d8dc378200a0e02fb48fb47475fa89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: spez <steve@reddit.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:04:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] empty urls are not valid urls

---
 r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py b/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
index 282a283e5..96d9d81de 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
@@ -314,6 +314,9 @@ def sanitize_url(url, require_scheme = False):
     False' is set, the url is returned with scheme 'http', provided it
     otherwise validates"""
 
+    if not url:
+        return
+
     url = url.strip()
     if url.lower() == 'self':
         return url