From fc5a6127a5aa8917f491c1cb4b1134e476e8878c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Moor <tom.moor@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 00:18:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #731 - Potential URL parse error

---
 app/scenes/Document/Document.js | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/scenes/Document/Document.js b/app/scenes/Document/Document.js
index f5f194f12..763a54092 100644
--- a/app/scenes/Document/Document.js
+++ b/app/scenes/Document/Document.js
@@ -237,13 +237,19 @@ class DocumentScene extends React.Component<Props> {
   onClickLink = (href: string) => {
     if (isInternalUrl(href)) {
       // relative
-      if (href[0] === '/') {
-        this.props.history.push(href);
+      let navigateTo = href;
+
+      // probably absolute
+      if (href[0] !== '/') {
+        try {
+          const url = new URL(href);
+          navigateTo = url.pathname;
+        } catch (err) {
+          navigateTo = href;
+        }
       }
 
-      // absolute
-      const url = new URL(href);
-      this.props.history.push(url.pathname);
+      this.props.history.push(navigateTo);
     } else {
       window.open(href, '_blank');
     }