___cliff rayman___ wrote:
> you are supposed to be able to use:
> <base href="/foo/bar/fred.html">
make that:
<base href="http://host.mydomain.net/foo/bar/fred.html">
>
>
> which changes the base of the document. if u really wanted to use internal
> redirects, you would have to insure that all documents contained this tag,
> or filter the page and include it yourself.
>
> of course this is just a spec, determining which browsers properly use
> it, is beyond me.
>
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> "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Robert> By using relative *URLs* such as /some/location, you avoid changing
> > Robert> the location field in the browser window, which is often desired. If
> > Robert> you use an absolute *URL*, the location field changes to the absolute
> > Robert> URL.
> >
> > Actually, I'll disagree with that. NEVER use internal redirects
> > (which you call "relative URLs" but that's another story) unless you
> > are fully understanding about WHY *I* say *NEVER*, in my strongest
> > language.
> >
> > As a hint... are you willing to be responsible for how all the
> > relative URLs in the resulting document are treated, including all
> > documents called from there?
> >
> > The problem is that the browser still thinks it got
> > "/foo/bar/fred.html", so if an internal redirect was performed to
> > "/abc/def/ghi.html" and it had a relative link to "../xyz.html", the
> > browser will fetch "/foo/xyz.html", not to the correct
> > "/abc/xyz.html", since the browser had no visibility to the /abc part
> > of that equation.
> >
> > NEVER use internal redirects.
> >
> > At least not until you understand why I say "NEVER".
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