[Javascript] Includes and relative paths?

[Phil Winstanley]

Easy way to sum it up

It's a 'Server Side' Include.
 

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Phil Winstanley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Curtis [mailto:Quixote at LaMancha.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:24 PM
To: javascript at latech.edu
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Includes and relative paths?



> OK, I have a page link in an include file, "/dir1/dir2/page1.asp".
> 
> The include file is in a page at "/dir1/dir3/page2.asp".
> 
> The include file is at "/include/inc_menu_bar.asp".
> 
> When I click the link, where does it 'think' it is?  My testing has 
> left me somewhat more befuddled than usual.  What I need is to have 
> the include file produce the called page regarless of where it is when 
> the link is clicked.  I can do it by using "http:// . . .", but I'd 
> like to avoid that because of development issues.  I don't want to 
> have to rewrite all the links in order to move the pages to 
> production.


To the browser, there is no such thing as an include. Once the server
"includes" the file, the browser only sees plain HTML -- and can't tell the
difference between HTML that was completely coded as-is or HTML that was
assembled from code fragments.

Thus, your browser will react to the link to "/dir1/dir2/page1.asp" on the
page of "/dir1/dir3/page2.asp" as if you simply coded that link onto that
page. The include is confusing you. Let it go... :)

+Ben Curtis
...just this guy, you know?







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