As suggested, I'm bringing this issue to the list so that I might understand the thinking behind an argued best practice. In https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55734 it is said that the correct way for a Tomcat application to construct internally-referencing URLs is to include the context path so as to avoid relative linking. Given as justification was the following article:
http://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/ The problem is the article seems to be describing issues that are general in nature and not specific to relative linking. For instance, incorrect links are incorrect links regardless of the form they take. Testing should catch such things before live deployment. I've used relative linking for years in many different systems without issue, so I'm left wondering why baking-in the context path is considered proper. - Milo Hyson Chief Scientist CyberLife Labs, Inc.
