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Fully qualified links - more work for browser?

daymobrew · 2007-06-18 15:46:28

Some websites specify the full URL in their links e.g. http://www.site.com/path/to/file and others use absolute links ( /path/to/file ) or even relative links ( ../path/to/file ). While the absolute or relative ones reduce the size of the html and won't have to be updated if the site moves to a new url, are there any…

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18-06-2007 4:46pm

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daymobrew

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Some websites specify the full URL in their links e.g. http://www.site.com/path/to/file and others use absolute links ( /path/to/file ) or even relative links ( ../path/to/file ).

While the absolute or relative ones reduce the size of the html and won't have to be updated if the site moves to a new url, are there any differences from a browser/networking point of view to each form?

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