When using action=parse to get HTML of a page, all links are relative, e.g.
/wiki/Metallica_(disambiguation)
Some people (see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/q/12346445/41071) seem to want absolute URLs in links instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_(disambiguation)
I think it would be useful if there was an option for action=parse to make all links absolute (or, alternatively, protocol-relative).
Version: 1.20.x
Severity: enhancement
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follow-up d334de9: Add makeurlsabsolute option to action=parse | mediawiki/core | master | +16 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T89916 Wikilinks from global user pages should point to the central wiki | |||
| Open | None | T61851 action=render does not expand img src. Breaks Foreign repos in some situations | |||
| Resolved | • Pchelolo | T89937 Remove GetLocalURL::Internal hack from CommonsMetadata | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T42128 Add option for absolute URLs to action=parse |
Avoid protocol-relative links -- these tend to turn into awkward things like "file://" or "ms-appx://" or something when including HTML into an app's webview.
Case use: mirror a wiki page on an applicative intranet. The links to edit works fine, but images won't show.
10 years ago, as a workaround in such situations, there were the possibility to put several base href, before and after the content with the IE and Opera, but now the browsers follow the recommendation and take in consideration only the first href and the first target value encountered.
Change 724186 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/core@master] Follow-up d334de9: Add makeurlsabsolute option to action=parse