From 8c27aaebc93be2c58f607b9bffd4566d9202d2cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe <41008398+StrawberryMaster@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:16:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue with index.html pages not loading we were rejecting
 empty paths, causing these files to be skipped. How did I miss this?

---
 lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
index bbf46f7..491af0c 100644
--- a/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
+++ b/lib/wayback_machine_downloader.rb
@@ -776,7 +776,8 @@ class WaybackMachineDownloader
     
   # safely sanitize a file id (or id+timestamp)
   def sanitize_and_prepare_id(raw, file_url)
-    return nil if raw.nil? || raw.empty?
+    return nil if raw.nil?
+    return ""  if raw.empty?
     original = raw.dup
     begin
       # work on a binary copy to avoid premature encoding errors