diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index c14124f79..01e7cc1e4 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -545,10 +545,11 @@ sub beautify_urlpath ($) { #{{{
 	return $url;
 } #}}}
 
-sub urlto ($$) { #{{{
+sub urlto ($$;$) { #{{{
 	my $to=shift;
 	my $from=shift;
-
+	my $absolute=shift;
+	
 	if (! length $to) {
 		return beautify_urlpath(baseurl($from)."index.$config{htmlext}");
 	}
@@ -557,6 +558,10 @@ sub urlto ($$) { #{{{
 		$to=htmlpage($to);
 	}
 
+	if ($absolute) {
+		return $config{url}.beautify_urlpath("/".$to);
+	}
+
 	my $link = abs2rel($to, dirname(htmlpage($from)));
 
 	return beautify_urlpath($link);
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
index 5517e3c94..2f0901943 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
@@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ sub genfeed ($$$$$@) { #{{{
 	my $page=shift;
 	my @pages=@_;
 	
-	my $url=URI->new(encode_utf8($config{url}."/".urlto($page,"")));
+	my $url=URI->new(encode_utf8(urlto($page,"",1)));
 	
 	my $itemtemplate=template($feedtype."item.tmpl", blind_cache => 1);
 	my $content="";
 	my $lasttime = 0;
 	foreach my $p (@pages) {
-		my $u=URI->new(encode_utf8($config{url}."/".urlto($p, "")));
+		my $u=URI->new(encode_utf8(urlto($p, "", 1)));
 		my $pcontent = absolute_urls(get_inline_content($p, $page), $url);
 
 		$itemtemplate->param(
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ sub pingurl (@) { #{{{
 
 	foreach my $page (keys %toping) {
 		my $title=pagetitle(basename($page), 0);
-		my $url="$config{url}/".urlto($page, "");
+		my $url=urlto($page, "", 1);
 		foreach my $pingurl (@{$config{pingurl}}) {
 			debug("Pinging $pingurl for $page");
 			eval {
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 3dd8bdaa1..7c28088de 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -582,12 +582,15 @@ time.
 
 This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised.
 
-#### `urlto($$)`
+#### `urlto($$;$)`
 
 Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the
 second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
 destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 
+If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
+constructed instead of the default relative url.
+
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
diff --git a/po/ikiwiki.pot b/po/ikiwiki.pot
index f5f35bff9..b6e2dc68c 100644
--- a/po/ikiwiki.pot
+++ b/po/ikiwiki.pot
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-07-25 15:21-0400\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-07-25 16:16-0400\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "You are banned."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:758 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:759 ../IkiWiki.pm:783
+#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:758 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:759 ../IkiWiki.pm:788
 msgid "Error"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -804,11 +804,11 @@ msgstr ""
 #. translators: preprocessor directive name,
 #. translators: the second a page name, the
 #. translators: third a number.
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:766
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:771
 #, perl-format
 msgid "%s preprocessing loop detected on %s at depth %i"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:1214
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:1219
 msgid "yes"
 msgstr ""