RST `image` directive tries to load images from local, even if explicitly passed as absolute URLs

[smileBeda]

I am using https://pandoc.org (which, heck, I wish I knew it earlier) to generate rst from my markdown (and other) file formats.
This works like a charm.

However, there is a peculiarity in the PHPDocumentor Guides feature.
Whenever I generate a Guide using the rst file it generates img tags that look for the image source file on the local path. That of course causes the images to not load.

Example

• In the rst you have:

|GitHub contributors|
// other content
.. |GitHub contributors| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/ORG/REPO

• PHPDocumentor Guide HTML output:

<img src="guide/tukutoi-template-builder/https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/ORG/REPO">

It is self-explanatory why I cannot use local files here: the whole point of this badge is that it is dynamically generated by GitHub.

Can this be fixed somehow? I already tried to wrap my absolute URL in <> in the rst file, which did not help.
Perhaps some config attribute, or terminal command I am not aware of?

[jaapio]

Thanks for reporting this issue, I think this is a bug in our guides rendering that needs to be addressed.

Right now I do not have an solution as workaround.