Bug 44196 - FILEOPEN: Open .html file into Calc adds absolute path to relative HREF= URL
Summary: FILEOPEN: Open .html file into Calc adds absolute path to relative HREF= URL
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: HTML-Import
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Reported: 2011-12-27 13:06 UTC by g434
Modified: 2023-02-25 03:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Saved by the editor, just before step 10. (866 bytes, text/html)
2012-05-03 17:07 UTC, g434 		Details
file abc.html at step 16. (960 bytes, text/html)
2012-05-03 17:09 UTC, g434 		Details
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Description g434 2011-12-27 13:06:28 UTC 
Problem description: 
Gratuitous change hyperlink HREF= from relative to absolute on opening a .html file.

Steps to reproduce:

0) Open Calc by clicking on desktop shortcut to <LibreOffice 3.4/program/scalc.exe>.

1) Both "Save URLs relative" boxes are checked in Tools/Options/Load-Save/General.

2) Type "Text with HYPERLINK" into cell A1.

3) Select cell A1 and hi-lite HYPERLINK in Formula Toolbar.

4) Click hyperlink icon in Standard Toolbar and select DOCUMENT.

5) Type  link.html  in Path. Click APPLY and CLOSE.

6) Click SAVE and save file as File Name: abc  and Type: HTML  on the Desktop.  Choose "Keep Current Format".   File "abc.html" is created.

7) Exit Calc using X in upper right corner.


8) Drag&drop abc.html onto a text editor (I use EditPlus)

9) See  HREF="link.html"  in the <A>...</A> directive.

   NOTE: This behavior is what we expect since "link.html" was what was entered in the hyperlink interaction above (#5).

10) Close the editor.



11) Drag&drop abc.html onto the Calc desktop shortcut.

12) OPTIONAL: Select cell A1 and hi-lite HYPERLINK in Formula Toolbar. Click hyperlink icon in Standard Toolbar.  OBSERVE: Path is now absolute, starting with "C:".

13) Using SAVE AS, save the page/sheet as File Name: abc  and Type: HTML & Keep Current Format.  Select "overwrite" to save the new abc.html over the previous one.

14) Exit Calc using X in upper right corner.



15) Drag&drop abc.html into the text editor again.

16) See that  HREF=  is now:

     HREF="file:///C:/Documents and Settings/username/Desktop/link.html"

17) It's now been changed to an **ABSOLUTE** path and the abc.html file can only operate properly when it resides on the desktop. If it were moved (along with "link.html") to another folder it would not be able to find "link.html"...


Platform (if different from the browser): WinXPpro V5.1 SP3
                            
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Comment 1 g434 2011-12-27 16:42:08 UTC 
I just tried this procedure on 3.5.0 Beta2.  Same behavior. Sorry.  73, Gary
Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-03 02:38:42 UTC 
Thanks for bugreport
Please, attach document produced on step 10
Comment 3 g434 2012-05-03 17:07:29 UTC 
Created attachment 61004 [details]
Saved by the editor, just before step 10.

File abc.html as saved by the editor at step 9-10. Saved as abc-step10.html
Comment 4 g434 2012-05-03 17:09:47 UTC 
Created attachment 61005 [details]
file abc.html at step 16.

File abc.html as saved by the editor at step 16.
Comment 5 g434 2012-05-03 20:05:38 UTC 
Recommend you ignore step 12 (OPTIONAL)... It may change conditions of the test and you can see the result in the final .html file anyway...
Comment 6 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-03 22:44:05 UTC 
Thanks for attachment.
reproduced in 3.3.4 and 3.5.3 on Fedora 64 bit
reproducible also by copy-paste from web-browser

step 12 is important because we see where problem occurs. In this case in import filter. IMHO it done intentedly because Calc not always works with relative path correctly.

PS: first attachment is from step 7. But it is not problem. I changed it for there appears this text: <a href="link.html">HYPERLINK</a>

Changing version to 3.3.4 as most early reproducible
Comment 7 Thomas Arnhold 2013-10-16 03:00:05 UTC 
Right, but this behavior is expected. If you copy your HTML example right from freedesktop.org the resulting link is:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/list.html

Without the absolute path the link would be broken and without any context. Maybe we should leave local links as they are, but add the absolute path for websites. But I'm undecided...

I've changed the component, because Writer does the same.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2015-04-01 14:42:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Buovjaga 2015-04-24 17:10:56 UTC 
Reproduced.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.0.0.0.alpha1+ (x64)
Build ID: f3375fa07f27bd2ade519af3c07d69040d10eaa9
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2015-04-22_23:38:50
Locale: fi_FI
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 09:33:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 13:59:43 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 QA Administrators 2023-02-25 03:24:05 UTC 
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