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Re: URL Style (was Re: New box cars)
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:13:13 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> writes:

> 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.

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



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  Re: URL Style (was Re: New box cars)
 
(...) 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 (27 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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