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Re: URL Style (was Re: New box cars)
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:18:05 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> Luckily, nearly all the internal links are relative, so they wouldn't be
> affected if I switch.  Unluckily, nearly all the internal links are
> relative, so I'd have to track down and update the links which are
> absolute.
> Or the absolute links could be switched to relative, if href=".." is
> allowed.

I don't know if it's allowed (shame on me :-) but it works, by using the
baseURL value (implied or specified).  HREF=".." will try to fetch the
default doc for the parent directory.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/



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  Re: URL Style (was Re: New box cars)
 
(...) Alternatively, I'm pretty sure that HREF="../" and HREF="./" are allowed. I've used 'em a lot over the years and never had problems. --Todd (27 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: URL Style (was Re: New box cars)
 
(...) Good point about the caching. I was thinking about that yesterday, as I was testing the domain-only version of the URL, and traversing my pages. A glance at the browser's URL display confirmed that nothing was back-translating the URL. Which (...) (27 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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