Umbraco RTE link creation injects current page to absolute url

Hi there

When using the RTE in Umbraco, our users are experiencing that it injects the current page reference into the url when writing absolute urls.

Example:
User edits page “https://basesite.com/example/

User writes “https://basesite.com/secondexample/” into a link field

The link generated on the edited page becomes “https://basesite.com/example/secondexample/

How do I get around this? They would like to be able to specify an absolute url in there.

Side note: It does not happen with external urls


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/93687-umbraco-rte-link-creation-injects-current-page-to-absolute-url