- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:17:59 -0500
- To: Dave Ingham <Dave.Ingham@newcastle.ac.uk>, www-talk@w3.org
At 03:28 PM 2/21/97 +0000, Dave Ingham wrote: >Does anyone know if any browsers support Content-Base headers with >HTTP/1.0 requests? I have tried a number of experiments with no success. If you are looking for an example of how to do it then libwww follows the rules set in the HTTP/1.1 specification in handling URL expansion. The algorithm goes like this if ( Content-Base ) /* Must be absolute */ base = Content-Base else if ( Content-Location ) /* Can be relative or absolute */ if ( Content-Location is absolute) base = Content-Location else base = Request-URI /* Must be absolute */ endif endif expanded = URL taken relative to base Content-base can be changed in the HTML document itself in which case you just run the algorithm again. libwww is available from http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Library/ Thanks, Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-346 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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