you are supposed to be able to use:
<base href="/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".
