openWindow with selenium-html-runner-3.5.0 fails if target is a variable containing a URL

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OS: Windows 10
Selenium Version: Html Runner-3.5.0
Browser: Firefox
Browser Version: 55.0.2 (64-bit)

Expected Behavior -

New tab or window opened with target URL

Actual Behavior -

HTML Runner prepends the base URL to the target URL resulting in a URL like http://localhost:8082/http://localhost:8082/somplace

Steps to reproduce -

Store a URL in a variable, and use the variable as the openWindow target e.g.

storeAttribute	css=#118 > a@href	targetURL
openWindow	${targetURL}	targetWinId

This works fine except when run from HTML Runner, i.e. works when run from SeleniumIDE and as a JUnit test. Just a brief look at org.openqa.selenium.server.htmlrunner.CoreTestCase suggested that the case where value maybe a variable is not handled.

This is the command line I am using:

java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=../geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64/geckodriver.exe -jar selenium-html-runner-3.5.0.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://localhost:8082" OpenWindowTestSuite.html logs