On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:28:29 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote:

> On 30/10/06, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:40:47 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> > On Fri, October 27, 2006 4:53 pm, Børge Holen wrote:
>> >> On Friday 27 October 2006 19:34, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> >>> And the header("Location: ...") requires a full URL.
>> >>
>> >> No it doesn't. but he's missing an ' at first glance
>> >
>> > Yes, it does:
>> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
>> >
>> > Note the use of 'absolute' within that section.
>>
>> Although I always use a full URL as well, doesn't absolute just mean
>> non-relative? As in:
>> Location: /Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
>> (absolute URI)
>>
>> Location: ./rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
>> (relative URI)
> 
> If you need contextual information to make sense of the URI (such as
> the server name from a previous request) then it's not absolute.
> 
> RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers
> 
> "An absolute identifier refers to a resource independent of the
> context in which the identifier is used. In contrast, a relative
> identifier refers to a resource by describing the difference within a
> hierarchical namespace between the current context and an absolute
> identifier of the resource."

Ah, thanks. I was confusing it with absolute and relative paths.

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