[uf-discuss] URL and Relative paths

Wed Sep 3 06:14:24 PDT 2008

On [Sep 2], at [ Sep 2] 6:45 , Martin McEvoy wrote:
> I think relative urls on the whole are "bad form" because many 
> authors forget to set the base url for their relative paths...

There's nothing wrong with that. See:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1808.html
> 3.3. Base URL from the Retrieval URL
>> If no base URL is embedded and the document is not encapsulated 
> within some other entity (e.g., the top level of a composite 
> entity), then, if a URL was used to retrieve the base document, that 
> URL shall be considered the base URL.

Peace,
Scott