I'm running a new install of DNN 5.6.x, and have run into a problem. The Telerik editor is stripping the absolute URLs from my html, even though I explicitly put them in the content. This is causing a problem because it's stripping the URL to an international site that has a very similar domain name when linking to it. 

In other words, I want:
...
<a href="http://www.searchengineacademy.com.au//somepage" target="_blank">
...

But because the site domain is http://www.searchengineacademy.com, no matter what I do, it's stripping out the url and making the html look like:

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<a href=".au/somepage" target="_blank">
...

Aargh. How do I turn off the stripping of the absolute URLs? Is there a setting in the web.config file? I looked on the Telerik site, and they said talk to DNN. The old web.config settings to force absolute URLs doesn't work in the DNN version.

Thanks for anyone who can shed some light!
Tom

Hi Cathal, My sincere thanks. In trying to decipher the documentation, what I gather is that I need to add two lines to the /Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Telerik/Config/ConfigDefault.xml file:

<property name="StripAbsoluteAnchorPaths">False</property>
<property name="StripAbsoluteImagesPaths">False</property>

Which I did, and this did not seem to have an effect one way or the other. 

Similarly, it's stripping out Javascript code from the HTML too.

Any thoughts or am I in the wrong place? 

Thank you!
Tom

Hi Cathal, just confirming I have the correct file above? I have done as you suggested, added these lines:

False
False
False

And recycled the app with the host settings->restart application to no avail.

I've restarted it twice just to be sure.

Thank you.