-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michel,
On 9/5/2010 6:23 PM, michel wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hassan Schroeder" > <hassan.schroe...@gmail.com> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:07 PM > Subject: Re: URL Rewrite > > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: >> The right solution would be to make sure that all the relative links >> in your >> pages, when they are interpreted by the browser and requested from the >> server, are also being caught by the rewriting mechanism on the >> server, and >> properly redirected to where they should. > > Or, uh, just don't *ever* use relative links, period. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sorry, but I don't understand why. In most cases relative links are > great, simply because they are 'self-updating' when the page gets moved. > Hard-coding is a last-resort solution. Relative links become problematic precisely /when/ they are moved around: all your relative links are broken. Also, when you start playing games with the URL your web browser sees (rewrites, etc.) and including files, etc., you will inevitably run into a situation where your relative path is nonsensical. Using absolute URLs is very easy using the tools provided by the servlet API, and, IMO, no less convenient than using relative ones. I believe using absolute URLs solves all of the problems I've outlined above, too. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyJLlMACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDK3ACgiizrnYts6eQ/HlRJvPk0lYDW /NIAnRPnNvfJPJZLXLDxvANEkHf7sD+I =rX8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
