diff --git a/swh/lister/gitweb/lister.py b/swh/lister/gitweb/lister.py
index 1710ba7..79fd7bf 100644
--- a/swh/lister/gitweb/lister.py
+++ b/swh/lister/gitweb/lister.py
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ class GitwebLister(StatelessLister[Repositories]):
         urls = []
         for row in bs.find_all("tr", {"class": "metadata_url"}):
             url = row.contents[-1].string.strip()
+            for scheme in ("http", "https", "git"):
+                # remove any string prefix before origin
+                pos = url.find(f"{scheme}://")
+                if pos != -1:
+                    url = url[pos:]
+                    break
 
             if "," in url:
                 urls_ = [s.strip() for s in url.split(",") if s]
diff --git a/swh/lister/gitweb/tests/data/https_git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw_firewall b/swh/lister/gitweb/tests/data/https_git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw_firewall
index 6113b2a..dbc00a0 100644
--- a/swh/lister/gitweb/tests/data/https_git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw_firewall
+++ b/swh/lister/gitweb/tests/data/https_git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw_firewall
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ summary | <a href="https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall/shortlog">shortlog
 <tr id="metadata_desc"><td>description</td><td>Firewall scripts for distorted.org.uk.</td></tr>
 <tr id="metadata_owner"><td>owner</td><td>Mark Wooding</td></tr>
 <tr id="metadata_lchange"><td>last change</td><td><span class="datetime">Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:09:32 +0000</span> (18:09 +0000)</td></tr>
-<tr class="metadata_url"><td>URL</td><td>https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall</td></tr>
-<tr class="metadata_url"><td></td><td>git://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall</td></tr>
+<tr class="metadata_url"><td>URL</td><td>fallback: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall</td></tr>
+<tr class="metadata_url"><td></td><td>fast: git://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall</td></tr>
 </table>
 <div class="header">
 <a class="title" href="https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/firewall/shortlog">shortlog</a>
@@ -164,4 +164,4 @@ window.onload = function () {
 };
 </script>
 </body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
+</html>