Replace Microsoft Protected Links module (and Textformatter variant)

[AAD Web Team]

Hello everyone,

We're slowly working through our site and moving things into modules for antarctica.gov.au, in the process we hope to open source some handy things we've built over the years.

As we operate in Microsoft heavy corporate environment, we've noticed more and more strange looking links getting pasted into our site. These are Microsoft protected links and are a 'intercept' link that attempts to check the link is legit before letting the user proceed to the original URL.

These links get automatically made when a user copies a link from Outlook/Teams/Office. The issue is, these links leak data in the URL parameters, including the email address of who has copied the link! Hence, we wrote two companion modules to find and format these links.

First is TextformatterMicrosoftProtectedLinks which formats the links at render time.
Second is FormatMicrosoftProtectedLinks which replaces the link with the original URL when saving the page.

We provided both modules as it depends on your preference. Some people like to leave the page content as the original (including the protected link), others like to replace this.

Let us know if you notice any issues using these modules.