diff --git a/src/core/catalog.js b/src/core/catalog.js
index 3ca66bace..10ec83db9 100644
--- a/src/core/catalog.js
+++ b/src/core/catalog.js
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+import {
+  addDefaultProtocolToUrl,
+  collectActions,
+  MissingDataException,
+  toRomanNumerals,
+  tryConvertUrlEncoding,
+} from "./core_utils.js";
 import {
   clearPrimitiveCaches,
   Dict,
@@ -24,11 +31,6 @@ import {
   RefSet,
   RefSetCache,
 } from "./primitives.js";
-import {
-  collectActions,
-  MissingDataException,
-  toRomanNumerals,
-} from "./core_utils.js";
 import {
   createPromiseCapability,
   createValidAbsoluteUrl,
@@ -1283,21 +1285,6 @@ class Catalog {
    * @param {ParseDestDictionaryParameters} params
    */
   static parseDestDictionary(params) {
-    // Lets URLs beginning with 'www.' default to using the 'http://' protocol.
-    function addDefaultProtocolToUrl(url) {
-      return url.startsWith("www.") ? `http://${url}` : url;
-    }
-
-    // According to ISO 32000-1:2008, section 12.6.4.7, URIs should be encoded
-    // in 7-bit ASCII. Some bad PDFs use UTF-8 encoding; see Bugzilla 1122280.
-    function tryConvertUrlEncoding(url) {
-      try {
-        return stringToUTF8String(url);
-      } catch (e) {
-        return url;
-      }
-    }
-
     const destDict = params.destDict;
     if (!isDict(destDict)) {
       warn("parseDestDictionary: `destDict` must be a dictionary.");
diff --git a/src/core/core_utils.js b/src/core/core_utils.js
index d91455296..93e8c22fb 100644
--- a/src/core/core_utils.js
+++ b/src/core/core_utils.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   BaseException,
   objectSize,
   stringToPDFString,
+  stringToUTF8String,
   warn,
 } from "../shared/util.js";
 import { Dict, isName, isRef, isStream, RefSet } from "./primitives.js";
@@ -451,7 +452,23 @@ function validateCSSFont(cssFontInfo) {
   return true;
 }
 
+// Let URLs beginning with 'www.' default to using the 'http://' protocol.
+function addDefaultProtocolToUrl(url) {
+  return url.startsWith("www.") ? `http://${url}` : url;
+}
+
+// According to ISO 32000-1:2008, section 12.6.4.7, URIs should be encoded
+// in 7-bit ASCII. Some bad PDFs use UTF-8 encoding; see Bugzilla 1122280.
+function tryConvertUrlEncoding(url) {
+  try {
+    return stringToUTF8String(url);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return url;
+  }
+}
+
 export {
+  addDefaultProtocolToUrl,
   collectActions,
   encodeToXmlString,
   escapePDFName,
@@ -467,6 +484,7 @@ export {
   readUint16,
   readUint32,
   toRomanNumerals,
+  tryConvertUrlEncoding,
   validateCSSFont,
   XRefEntryException,
   XRefParseException,
diff --git a/src/core/xfa/xhtml.js b/src/core/xfa/xhtml.js
index 8f13cf947..51aa7730a 100644
--- a/src/core/xfa/xhtml.js
+++ b/src/core/xfa/xhtml.js
@@ -29,8 +29,13 @@ import {
   XmlObject,
 } from "./xfa_object.js";
 import { $buildXFAObject, NamespaceIds } from "./namespaces.js";
+import {
+  addDefaultProtocolToUrl,
+  tryConvertUrlEncoding,
+} from "../core_utils.js";
 import { fixTextIndent, measureToString, setFontFamily } from "./html_utils.js";
 import { getMeasurement, HTMLResult, stripQuotes } from "./utils.js";
+import { createValidAbsoluteUrl } from "../../shared/util.js";
 
 const XHTML_NS_ID = NamespaceIds.xhtml.id;
 
@@ -321,7 +326,16 @@ class XhtmlObject extends XmlObject {
 class A extends XhtmlObject {
   constructor(attributes) {
     super(attributes, "a");
-    this.href = attributes.href || "";
+    let href = "";
+    if (typeof attributes.href === "string") {
+      let url = addDefaultProtocolToUrl(attributes.href);
+      url = tryConvertUrlEncoding(url);
+      const absoluteUrl = createValidAbsoluteUrl(url);
+      if (absoluteUrl) {
+        href = absoluteUrl.href;
+      }
+    }
+    this.href = href;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/unit/xfa_tohtml_spec.js b/test/unit/xfa_tohtml_spec.js
index cb96d6469..bf3cd8f19 100644
--- a/test/unit/xfa_tohtml_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/xfa_tohtml_spec.js
@@ -522,4 +522,70 @@ describe("XFAFactory", function () {
     expect(field1).not.toEqual(null);
     expect(field1.attributes.value).toEqual("123");
   });
+
+  it("should parse URLs correctly", function () {
+    function getXml(href) {
+      return `
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<xdp:xdp xmlns:xdp="http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/">
+  <template xmlns="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/3.3">
+    <subform name="root" mergeMode="matchTemplate">
+      <pageSet>
+        <pageArea>
+          <contentArea x="0pt" w="456pt" h="789pt"/>
+          <medium stock="default" short="456pt" long="789pt"/>
+          <draw name="url" y="5.928mm" x="128.388mm" w="71.237mm" h="9.528mm">
+            <value>
+              <exData contentType="text/html">
+                <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+                  <a href="${href}">${href}</a>
+                </body>
+              </exData>
+            </value>
+          </draw>
+        </pageArea>
+      </pageSet>
+    </subform>
+  </template>
+  <xfa:datasets xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/">
+    <xfa:data>
+    </xfa:data>
+  </xfa:datasets>
+</xdp:xdp>
+      `;
+    }
+    let factory, pages, a;
+
+    // A valid, and complete, URL.
+    factory = new XFAFactory({ "xdp:xdp": getXml("https://www.example.com/") });
+    expect(factory.numberPages).toEqual(1);
+    pages = factory.getPages();
+    a = searchHtmlNode(pages, "name", "a");
+    expect(a.value).toEqual("https://www.example.com/");
+    expect(a.attributes.href).toEqual("https://www.example.com/");
+
+    // A valid, but incomplete, URL.
+    factory = new XFAFactory({ "xdp:xdp": getXml("www.example.com/") });
+    expect(factory.numberPages).toEqual(1);
+    pages = factory.getPages();
+    a = searchHtmlNode(pages, "name", "a");
+    expect(a.value).toEqual("www.example.com/");
+    expect(a.attributes.href).toEqual("http://www.example.com/");
+
+    // A valid email-address.
+    factory = new XFAFactory({ "xdp:xdp": getXml("mailto:test@example.com") });
+    expect(factory.numberPages).toEqual(1);
+    pages = factory.getPages();
+    a = searchHtmlNode(pages, "name", "a");
+    expect(a.value).toEqual("mailto:test@example.com");
+    expect(a.attributes.href).toEqual("mailto:test@example.com");
+
+    // Not a valid URL.
+    factory = new XFAFactory({ "xdp:xdp": getXml("qwerty/") });
+    expect(factory.numberPages).toEqual(1);
+    pages = factory.getPages();
+    a = searchHtmlNode(pages, "name", "a");
+    expect(a.value).toEqual("qwerty/");
+    expect(a.attributes.href).toEqual("");
+  });
 });