David Kerr wrote: > > > Philip, I think I understand what you are saying... > > Use the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to generate the public host and the > Prefs tab URL string for the local path... in this special case. > > Possibly if the user specified http://localhost/bla..bla, I could > replace "://localhost" with ://$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], since localhost > would normally have no application in an HTML anchor href= > > Anyone see a problem with this? > > > The only problem would be if the user actually intended "localhost" to > mean his real local host (127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>) perhaps to > point to some service that is actually running on his client machine. > > A work around would be to document that if the user entered > "localhost" then you will remap it... and if they really intended > localhost then to enter the IP address "127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>" > instead of the text "localhost". > > But a better way may be to use the convention of a single dot meaning > that what follows is relative to the current directory. So if I enter > http://./bla.bla then the first "." would be replaced with the > HTTP_HOST. In my specific case I want to get to... > http://.:8088/asterisk/static/config/index.html which would make a > good test case for you as it has a dot (meaning the host I am > connected to) a colon then port number then directory path. If this > were parsed out to substitute the current host for the dot then it > should work. > > Thanks > David
http://. is not actually a legal URL (even though a lot of browsers will handle it). -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
