I need to implement functions to check whether paths and urls are relative, absolute, or invalid (invalid syntactically- not whether resource exists). What are the range of cases I should be lookin...

I am writing some documentation and I have a little vocabulary problem: http://www.example.com/en/public/img/logo.gif is called an "absolute" url, right? ../../public/img/logo.gif is called a "re...

I am trying to write a GreaseMonkey script in which I want to find all of the links that are relative links. It seemed to me that the way to do that would be to match the contents of href against /...

I'm writing a little web crawler, and a lot of the links on sites I'm crawling are relative (so they're /robots.txt, for example). How do I convert these relative URLs to absolute URLs (so /robots....

I believe the definition and implementation of Java's URI.resolve method is incompatible with RFC 3986 section 5.2.2. I understand that the Java API defines how that method works, and if it were ch...

It's been an oft-discussed question on StackOverflow what this means: <script src="//cdn.example.com/somewhere/something.js"></script> This gives the advantage that if you're access...

Is there is a way to convert a Mechanize relative-link object to another one which contains the absolute URL. Mechanize must know the absolute link, because I can call the click method on relativ...

I need a function that given a relative URL and a base returns an absolute URL. I've searched and found many functions that do it different ways. resolve("../abc.png", "http://example.com/path/thi...

I'm having trouble building an absolute URL from a relative URL without resorting to String hackery... Given http://localhost:8080/myWebApp/someServlet Inside the method: public void handleR...

I have url like this: http://example.com/path/to/css/../../images/test.jpg which i want to convert to absolute like the following: http://example.com/path/images/test.jpg I am looking for a mod...

Given a string, how do I determine if it is an absolute URL or a relative URL in Java? I tried the following code: private boolean isAbsoluteURL(String urlString) { boolean result = false; try {...

I would like to know the differences between these two types of URLs: relative URLs (for pictures, CSS files, JavaScript files, etc.) and absolute URLs. In addition, which one is better to use?

After failed attempts with Passenger (see my other question), I managed to get rails running via a reverse proxy in a subfolder. I added the lines config.relative_url_root = "/App" config.action_c...

I am trying to display a website to a user, having downloaded it using php. This is the script I am using: <?php $url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/pagecalledjohn.php'; //Download page $site = f...

I am creating a website on localhost. I want to make all of link resources in my website to relative path ( I mean only internal resources). website is located in http://localhost/mywebsite I ...

This is probably a simple question, but I can't find a straightforward answer anywhere. My website is hosted on Amazon EC2. I want to take advantage of Amazon Cloudfront to speed up the loading o...

I've got a base URL and some relative URIs in that document I want to have the absolute path of. E.g. base = https://example.com/some/path.html?query=string and relative URIs in that document: i...

Possible Duplicate: URI starting with two slashes … how do they behave? Absolute URLs omitting the protocol (scheme) in order to preserve the one of the current page shorthand as ...

We are migrating to git. We have a large number of modules that make up our products, some of them are shared between products. The product is represented by a "thin" super repository (ssh://server...

I have been looking at the html5 boilerplate and noticed that the jquery include url starts with a double slash. The url is //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js Why is the ht...

I've got a file structure like so Root -index.html -adirectory ->fileinthedirectory.html I'd like to create a relative link from fileinthedirectory.html to index.html since /index.html links...

I would like to create a relative link that switches the current protocol from http to https. The last place I worked had something set up on the server so that you could make that happen, but I do...