Link Structure Defined?

XML, Perl, Python, and other languages can be discussed here, even if it isn't PHP (We might forgive you).

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
Wolf_22
Forum Contributor
Posts: 159
Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:43 pm

Link Structure Defined?

Post 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:
User avatar
kaszu
Forum Regular
Posts: 749
Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:29 am

Re: Link Structure Defined?

Post by kaszu »

Post Reply