diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
index 5ea5f35af..c3895d982 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ sub absolute_urls ($$) {
 					$v=$baseurl.$v; # anchor
 				}
 				elsif ($dv=~/^(?!\w+:)[^\/]/) {
-					$v=$url.$v; # relative url
+					$v=URI->new_abs($v, $url)->canonical; # relative url
 				}
 				elsif ($dv=~/^\//) {
 					if (! defined $urltop) {
diff --git a/doc/bugs/rss_output_relative_links.mdwn b/doc/bugs/rss_output_relative_links.mdwn
index ff607cbb3..7a2e4d12b 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/rss_output_relative_links.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/rss_output_relative_links.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 RSS output contains relative links. Ie. 
 http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/index.rss contains a link to 
 http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/../blog.html
+
+> Finally [[done]] for the first release of 2016. --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/t/inline.t b/t/inline.t
index 859e1701a..8c0f1c35a 100755
--- a/t/inline.t
+++ b/t/inline.t
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ write_old_file("antagonists.mdwn",
 # using old spelling of "limit" ("show") to verify backwards compat
 write_old_file("enemies.mdwn",
 	'[[!inline pages="enemies/*" postform=no rootpage=enemies sort=title reverse=yes show=2]]');
+# to test correct processing of ../
+write_old_file("blah/blah/enemies.mdwn",
+	'[[!inline pages="enemies/*" postform=no rootpage=enemies sort=title reverse=yes show=2]]');
 foreach my $page (qw(protagonists/shepard protagonists/link
 		antagonists/saren antagonists/ganondorf
 		friends/garrus friends/liara friends/midna friends/telma
@@ -53,6 +56,9 @@ foreach my $page (qw(protagonists/shepard protagonists/link
 		enemies/zant)) {
 	write_old_file("$page.mdwn", "this page is {$page}");
 }
+# test cross-linking between pages as rendered in RSS
+write_old_file("enemies/zant.mdwn", "this page is {enemies/zant}\n\n".
+	"Zant hates [[friends/Midna]].");
 
 ok(! system(@command));
 ok(! system(@command, "--refresh"));
@@ -81,4 +87,18 @@ like($blob, qr[this page is \{enemies/zant}.*this page is \{enemies/rachni}]s,
 unlike($blob, qr{enemies/(?:benezia|geth)},
 	'pages excluded by show should not be present');
 
+$blob = readfile("t/tmp/out/enemies.rss");
+like($blob, qr[this page is \{enemies/zant}.*this page is \{enemies/rachni}]s,
+	'first two pages in reversed sort order are present');
+like($blob,
+	qr[Zant hates <a href=(?:['"]|")http://example\.com/friends/midna.html(?:['"]|")>Midna</a>]s,
+	'link is correctly relative');
+
+$blob = readfile("t/tmp/out/blah/blah/enemies.rss");
+like($blob, qr[this page is \{enemies/zant}.*this page is \{enemies/rachni}]s,
+	'first two pages in reversed sort order are present');
+like($blob,
+	qr[Zant hates <a href=(?:['"]|")http://example\.com/friends/midna.html(?:['"]|")>Midna</a>]s,
+	'link is correctly relative');
+
 done_testing;