[uf-discuss] URLs in hrefs

[Michael Smethurst]

OK, ok, ok... My mistake

I'd assumed that uf parsers couldn't handle non full path urls... Silly on
my part

In mitigation:
- I'm not sure the uf wiki makes this clear
- All the examples on the wiki seem to use full path urls
- By default using url_for on RoR gives full path urls (check twitter).
Everything else about RoR feels designed and there for a reason so I assumed
that this was
- I've spent quite a bit of time mashing up musicbrainz and wikipedia and
got frustrated at having to fill out the wikipedia full path urls myself -
I'm lazy
- Against my better judgement I spend a lot of time in the company of rest
apis. I've yet to come across one that doesn't use full path urls. In my
mind ufs are apis so...
- I had read the http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt doc many months
previously and again before posting

I'm sure there are caveats for most of the above and I apologise for not
spending my weekend fully researching them all

But the question remains:
Microformats aside, if I'm making a new website from scratch (no legacy
code/markup) and I want to encourage others to hack, mashup, interwingle it
with other data is it best to use /radio4 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
?




On 20/4/07 13:39, "David Janes" <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:

> On 4/19/07, Michael Smethurst <Michael.Smethurst at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> Afternoon all
>> 
>> Standard practice at the beeb has always been to use link urls relative to
>> the root:
>> href="/radio4/today"
>> 
>> Clearly these are of little use in a microformat (or any attempt to use html
>> as an api)
>> 
>> So my question is - are there any problems we should be aware of in
>> switching to full path urls? One or 2 developers have mentioned the
>> possibility of creating unnecessary connections but no-one seems sure
>> 
>> I've googled around but all the absolute/relative url discussions are web
>> tutorials from 1995 so thought u might be a good port of call...
> 
> The reason that there has been little discussion is that the rules for
> dealing with this are well understood and settled. This document [1]
> will give you everything you need -- written in 1995.
> 
> Regards, etc...
> 
> [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt


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