How to handle local links?

[arne-cl]

Hi Eric,

I just tried to run existence on a local copy of a package documentation (generated by Sphinx). According to the tool, all the local links are broken (which they aren't). Is there a setting to ignore them?

Best,
Arne

[ckcollab]

Hrm, well ideally we could get local links to work and check those as well. You're on Ubuntu Linux right?

def clean_url(url):
    if platform.system() == "Windows":
        if url.startswith("C:\\"):
            url = url.replace("C:\\", "file:///C:/")

    return url

Maybe there's a change that could be made there to make your local files resolve properly?