root-relative links should be converted to absolute in rss feeds

[digitalgimpus]

currently bloggers may use relative links to link to a past post, or some other page in their site:

/archives/foo/bar

that is invalid in a feed, as all URI's need to be absolute (for rather obvious reasons).

The correct fix would be to find relative links in a post, and convert them to absolute.

This is important where full-text feeds are provided, as the links break. Some tools automatically assume and fix it, but some do not. feedvalidator.org says it's bad.

[markjaquith]

I'll work on this after 2.1

[robertaccettura]

I wrote a plugin to help with this problem a while back. Doesn't cover every case though. For reference:
​http://robert.accettura.com/projects/absoluterss/

[foolswisdom]

Replying to digitalgimpus:

that is invalid in a feed, as all URI's need to be absolute (for rather obvious reasons).

I think that is only true for RSS (not ATOM), and still would probably consider the feed reader broken for RSS.

[pishmishy]

I don't believe that there's a full solution to this ticket. The intended destination of a relative link inside a post is ambiguous. A relative link to foo/bar.html can link to ​http://myblog.com/foo/bar.html on the main page, ​http://myblog.com/category/uncategorized/foo/bar.html in the archives and ​http://myblog.com/2007/11/05/8/foo/bar.html when viewing a single post.

What we can do is attempt to fix "root-relative" links (those starting in /). I'm not sure this is worth fixing. Can someone point to the place where relative links are not allowed?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

closing as plugin material/wontfix from lack of activity in the past 18 months