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Link Structure Defined?

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:33 pm
by Wolf_22
Is there any definitive website available on the internet anywhere that can explain the intricacies of links? The reason I ask this is because it seems like to me that links and understanding them remains a very prevalent issue in developing. How many times, for example, have we all stumbled over accidental misunderstandings of where a file is within a resource URL?

I guess what I would like to see is some resource available that explains everything about links (if that's even possible). Relative, absolute, schemes, hosts, paths, and so on.

What sparked me in asking this is the "How to parse and build URLs" article that Nadeau posted back in May. In it, it discusses how to rebuild links after they have been parsed and also introduced a new term I was previously unaware of: scheme. When did "scheme" become part of a link??? I thought it was "protocol" instead of "scheme"!

What gives? :banghead:

Re: Link Structure Defined?

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:10 pm
by kaszu