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From: "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: URL Rewrite
Michel,
michel wrote:
...
Konstantin, I fixed the problem! The problem was in the links in the HTML
code. If I do a redirect, then the URL in http: shows the true URL, and
the links in the page were using it for building the reklative address.
Example:
with http://www.smith.com html code <img src="heading/can-post.gif"> is
really
http://www.smith.com/heading/can-post.gif
in a forward the http in the toolbar might be
http://www.smith.com/cleanurl
so the image is http://www.smith.com/cleaurl/heading/can-post.gif
and it can't be found.
The solution is to have
<base href=http://www.smith.com/> in the page, so the URL building uses
that instead of the misleading URL in the toolbar.
I have not followed the entire thread in detail, but take this as friendly
advice.
You should really, really, *really* think about what you are doing here,
before jumping to what may appear as a solution now, but is going to give
you a lot of trouble and extra work further down the line.
I mean the "<base href=" thing.
Basically this is, in my view, a "sparadrap on a wooden leg" kind of
solution (culturally, you should understand what I mean).
Unless your website is really small (meaning there are just a few pages),
and will stay that way in the future, I would really not recommend the
"base href" solution.
The "base href" option basically stops the browsers from interpreting
links in the "natural" way, and forces them to interpret them in an
"unnatural" way. This can mean that you will have, forever, to write
*all* your HTML pages in a certain way, different from the way that HTML
editors and content management systems expect. And that can give you a
lot of work in the future.
It would be far better to really understand the way in which a browser
naturally interprets relative links, and to make sure that your server
does things in such a way that these pages are sent to the browser with
the correct links in the first place.
André, I am not sure that I understand but I think that I do. In this case,
I believe that HTML does interpret links in a natural way. Normally, the
HTML picks up the base href from the toolbar. In the case of a forward with
a clean URL in the toolbar, we already have an unnatural HTML process going
on. But I am only using the base href on that single page anyway.
Regards,
Michel
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