From 69c6e98f0738beb398473d9d4babb72332b6842d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavlo Kulyk <pkulyk@devforth.io>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:55:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add API for to determine our link or from a third-party
 source

---
 index.ts | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/index.ts b/index.ts
index f79afba..f38cad1 100644
--- a/index.ts
+++ b/index.ts
@@ -415,6 +415,26 @@ export default class AdminForthStorageAdapterLocalFilesystem implements StorageA
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Checks if the URL belongs to this local filesystem storage instance.
+   * It checks if the URL starts with the base path registered in Express.
+   * * @param url - The URL to check
+   */
+  async isInternalUrl(url: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (url.startsWith(this.expressBase)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      const normalizedUrl = url.startsWith('//') ? `https:${url}` : url;
+      const parsedUrl = new URL(normalizedUrl, 'http://localhost'); 
+      
+      return parsedUrl.pathname.startsWith(this.expressBase);
+    } catch (e) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * This method should return the key as a data URL (base64 encoded string).
    * @param key - The key of the file to be converted to a data URL