Handling of absolute URLs

[mnlipp]

The plugin does not handle absolute URLs as expected. The top level document on my site uses absolute URLs (https://mnlipp.github.io/project/...) to refer to the documentation of my projects. I would assume that this is "standard", because you edit this top level content in a "normal" github project (in my case https://github.com/mnlipp/mnlipp.github.com). While you do this, the ghpages-content of your projects is not available and relative links cannot be checked.

On github, of couse, the content of the mnlipp.github.com project and the ghpages from the other projects are "merged" into a single tree where the ghpages are in subdirectories with the projects' names. So eventually relative URLs could be used.

I have activated the jekyll-sitemap plugin and have found that it generates a sitemap with only the links in my top level page. These links are not crawled. I assume, because they are absolute URLs (start with https://...). However, I'd assume the plugin to be clever enough to find out that the URLs -- despite having the syntax of an absolute URL -- are effectively relative to the site being crawled and crawl them.

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