Could we get a feature to follow or fix relative links?

[dwarf-king-hreidmar]

Could we get a feature to follow or fix relative links?

[fguillot]

The problem has nothing to do with relative links. Miniflux already rewrite relative links to absolute URLs.

The problem is related to the requests made by the built-in media proxy. By default, plain text links will be proxified. If you look at the logs, you can see that this website returns a 503 status code for the requests made by Miniflux media proxy:

time=2024-05-17T17:51:35.766-07:00 level=WARN msg="MediaProxy: Unexpected response status code" media_url=http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20240503a.jpg status_code=503

There are different ways to work around this:

1. Disable the internal proxy: MEDIA_PROXY_MODE=none
2. Keep the default settings for media proxy modes (do not proxify https images), and use a rewrite rule, for example: replace("http://"|"https://")
3. Modify Miniflux's source code to forward the browser user agent while making the proxy request because this website seems to block requests based on the user agent.