Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>: > I'm not an HTLM/HTTP guru, but I've tinkered with web pages for 20+ > years, and for links within sites, I've always used links either > relative to the current location or an absolute _path_ relative to the > current server: > > <a src='/Whatever'>Whatever</a> > > I've never had any problems with links like that. Is there some case > where that doesn't work right and I've just been stupidly lucky?
An ancient HTML spec (<URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866>) specifies: HREF gives the URI of the head anchor of a hyperlink. It refers to the URI spec (<URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630>): Partial (relative) form Within a object whose URI is well defined, the URI of another object may be given in abbreviated form, where parts of the two URIs are the same. This allows objects within a group to refer to each other without requiring the space for a complete reference, and it incidentally allows the group of objects to be moved without changing any references. [...] The rules for the use of a partial name relative to the URI of the context are: [...] Bottom line: you are safe. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
