Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >>> From: hanasaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how are >>> relative pages/images retrieved? >>> >>> the page >>> http://localhost/a/b/c >>> has an href to >>> ../images/image1.gif >>> >>> how is it that the websever knows to convert this into >>> http://localhost/a/b/images.gif >>> >> >> >> I believe that it's the client (browser) that forms an absolute URL >> based on that of the current page. The client must request each href >> independently from the server, although HTTP 1.1 allows them to be >> batched together. >> >> - Chuck >> >> > It's definitely the client's job to request every resource using > absolute path. This must be written in some RFC if you're interested. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes. Specifically the HTML spec 4.01 section 12.4.1 and RFC 1808 both describe how the client must be able to deterimine a base URI for resolving all relative URIs.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html, bottom of the page. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
