From ca7755649cc769983932247e0821143b03d8f740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: frankpagan <frank@cocreate.app>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:08:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: check if url is not the same as current prior to
 applying location.href

---
 src/index.js | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 65ab425..c560b05 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -184,7 +184,14 @@ function run(link) {
     if (typeof CoCreate.link !== 'undefined') {
         CoCreate.link.open(link)
     } else if (link.hasAttribute('href')) {
-        window.location.href = link.getAttribute('href');
+        let href = link.getAttribute('href') || '';
+        // Normalize both URLs to compare paths in a uniform way
+        const currentPath = new URL(location.href).pathname.replace('/index.html', '/');
+        const targetPath = new URL(href, location.href).pathname.replace('/index.html', '/');
+
+        if (currentPath !== targetPath) {
+            location.href = href;
+        }
     }
 }