- From: Simon Cox <S.Cox@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:35:44 +0800
- To: BearHeart/Bill Weinman <BearHeart@bearnet.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
At 1:19 PM 19/12/95, BearHeart/Bill Weinman wrote:
> The problem with the parial URLs may be the "../" references.
>
> Some servers, and perhaps some browsers too, disallow them because
>they've been abused to get around security measures.
I can understand this, but what is the alternative?
Given a BASE definition, then it is incredibly useful to be able
to use "relative" URL's subsequently.
This would be more-or-less impossible
without using ../
What is the best practice with this?
Simon Cox
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