trentm / trentm/python-markdown2

preventing auto-resolving link

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Description

I'm trying to give a relative link to the markdown file as follows:

 [download](../../storage/something.zip)

this is being resolved as:

<a href="file:///some/path/storage/something.zip">download<a>

this is unnecessary, as the relative path should not be resolved, as relative path will be resolved automatically by the browser regardless of whether using the file locally (not hosted on server) or hosting on a server.

for now I have to put the link as:

[download](http://www.myserver.com/storage/something.zip)

this is unsatisfactory as the hostname can change (the host can be ip:port combination also, which worsens the situation)

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Start by tracing how markdown2 renders relative links such as ../../storage/something.zip and compare the generated href with the issue's expected output. Done means relative links remain relative instead of being converted to file:/// URLs, while absolute links continue to work.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
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1-2 days
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