- From: Jon Wallis <j.wallis@wlv.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:31:57 +0000
- To: BearHeart/Bill Weinman <BearHeart@bearnet.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
At 13:19 19/12/95 -0600, BearHeart/Bill Weinman wrote:
>
>At 10:40 am 12/19/95 -0800, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>><A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="../gifs/btnhome3.gif" ALT="[Home]"
border=1></A>
>><A HREF="../map.html"><IMG SRC="../gifs/btnmap3.gif" ALT="[Index]"
>
>>(I'm gonna be changing the form and cgi soon, btw, cuz Lynx doesn't like
>>partial URLs -- tho' Netscape handles this form perfectly.)
>
> 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.
That really shouldn't be a problem if the system is set up right - but since
so many systems are poorly set up in terms of security I can believe it.
However, it doesn't make sense to stop a browser using relative URLs, since
the browser on its own can't pose a security threat. Also, not being able
to use relative addressing causes major problems with portability of
document sets.
--
Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Computing / University Webmaster
School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, UK - WV1 1SB
Personal WWW Home Page <URL:http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1906>
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Received on Wednesday, 20 December 1995 06:33:33 UTC