diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 Mihir Karbelkar
 Shankhadeep Dey
 Siddharth Ravikumar
+Anirudh Lakhotia
diff --git a/assets/src/bundles/add_forge/create-request.js b/assets/src/bundles/add_forge/create-request.js
--- a/assets/src/bundles/add_forge/create-request.js
+++ b/assets/src/bundles/add_forge/create-request.js
@@ -121,10 +121,14 @@
           name: 'forge_url',
           render: function(data, type, row) {
             if (type === 'display') {
-              return `<a href="${data}">${data}</a>`;
+              let html = '';
+              const sanitizedURL = $.fn.dataTable.render.text().display(data);
+              html += sanitizedURL;
+              html += `&nbsp;<a href="${sanitizedURL}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">` +
+                '<i class="mdi mdi-open-in-new" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>';
+              return html;
             }
             return data;
-
           }
         },
         {