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URLs starting with slash are considered file:/// URLs
See original GitHub issueWhen an href in the webpage starts with /, it stays as is and hence the PDF viewer considers it a File URL. It should probably prepend it with the domain.
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- Created 5 years ago
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@danburzo Apparently, setting the URL is not enough to trigger the relative paths transformation. This last solution adds a line that should fix this issue.
Thanks for looking into it, back to the drawing board then!
For whomever experiences this bug and would like to help debug it, it would be interesting to see the page content before and after Readability parses it, to see if it can successfully resolve relative links to absolute ones.
Alternatively, we should not rely on Readability to do the work for us, if we ever want to skip the Readability step? (#13)