Oops, wrong list. It was a Tomcat issue, so he meant Tomcat users. Sorry for 
the confusion.

- Milo Hyson
Chief Scientist
CyberLife Labs, Inc.

On Nov 4, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote:

> It is 100% not appropriate for HTTPD's Bugzilla since it is not a bug or 
> documentation issue. Since I can't find the Bugzilla note you are referring 
> to, I can't say for sure, but I expect it was effectively a canned response 
> that the issue was not a bug and you should go to the list.
> 
> It is not clear how your original post on this list relates to Apache HTTPD 
> Server, which is the focus of this list.
> This is not a forum to debate general HTML practices that have no relation to 
> the server software/configuration. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Milo Hyson <m...@cyberlifelabs.com> wrote:
> I was instructed to bring this discussion to this list from bugzilla. If that 
> instruction was incorrect, I apologize.
> 
> - Milo Hyson
> Chief Scientist
> CyberLife Labs, Inc.
> 
> On Nov 4, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote:
> 
>> This is not an Apache HTTPD issue.
>> 
>> That said, the article you linked to is specifically about WordPress - 
>> defending their decision to make ALL links absolute links.
>> I worked on a government project (using Wordpress) that required that all 
>> URLs be relative unless absolutely necessary and we had to add a plugin to 
>> undo all of that linking.
>> 
>> - Y
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Milo Hyson <m...@cyberlifelabs.com> wrote:
>> I've been using relative links in content for many years without any 
>> trouble. It has been suggested this is a bad practice, but the reasons given 
>> I haven't found terribly convincing. I may be wrong, but it seems as though 
>> people are using relative linking as a scapegoat for generally bad practices.
>> 
>> Take the following article for instance: 
>> http://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/
>> 
>> The way I see it, if broken links are being deployed then testing isn't 
>> thorough enough. If a test environment is accessible to uninvolved parties 
>> (e.g. spiders) then testing isn't controlled enough. If multiple paths exist 
>> to the same content without good reason, then the architecture is poor.
>> 
>> Looking around Google, this seems to be rather representative of the 
>> arguments. Relative links are bad because when they're combined with other 
>> issues that should never happen the results are undesirable. That's not good 
>> enough for me. Does anybody have a better reason?
>> 
>> - Milo Hyson
>> Chief Scientist
>> CyberLife Labs, Inc.
>> 
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