[AWS] Relative links

Jacob Sparre Andersen sparre@sslug.se
Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:47:20 +0100 (CET)


Anders Wirzenius wrote:

> <img src="icons/MSO014.png" width="8px" height=" 34px"
> alt="29.08.2003: MSO014, 17 tickets">
> 
> but no MSO014.png is found even if a have icons as a
> subdirectory (..\HD\icons\) to the directory (..\HD\)
> where the AWS program is. Arenīt the relative links
> relative to the directory where AWS is running in?

No!  Remember that HTTP is a stateless protocol.  The HTTP
client interprets the HTML code an maps the relative URL
into an absolute URL based on which URL the referring
document was fetched from.

I.e. this is not at all an AWS related question.

Jacob
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