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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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jsproat@io.comSAYNOTOSPAM
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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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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