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Discussion in 'Software Development' started by prasannakarthikl, Oct 6, 2008.

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  1. prasannakarthikl

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    Why the href tag is not working, if http is not used? Is it mandatory,if so why?
     
    prasannakarthikl, Oct 6, 2008
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  2. mt2002

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    Its mandatory, The reason is because there are different types of protocols that can be used (http, ftp, et al...) so you need to specify the type of protocol.
     
    mt2002, Oct 6, 2008
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  3. JimmySeal

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    The protocol need not be specified in relative links (links to locations on the same server).
    So if a page located at
    http://www.mywebpage.com/files/hello.html
    had a tag
    <a href="morefiles/yay.html">

    this would be essentially the same thing as
    <a href="http://www.mywebpage.com/files/morefiles/yay.html">
     
    JimmySeal, Oct 7, 2008
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