On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 at 21:40, Chase wrote: > Is the GET request always rooted at "/" ?
Actually, I tell a lie. The format of a request COULD be GET http://www.somedomainname.com/somefilename.htm HTTP/1.1 although this form of request is likely only when talking to a proxy server. Have a read of this page: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html which outlines the format of the Request URI for a GET request. > In other words, is the browser itself responsible for figuring out > what the full path to file is, if, for instance, the user clicks on a > relative link? Yes - as per the spec above, the client must specify the full path relative to the document root, so /some/path/to/somefile.htm so the browser must translate relative links into this absolute path. -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
