Re: Full versus relative URLs

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Paul M Foster wrote:

> Here's a question related to my last post. When specifying a link in a
> HTML file (like to the css or an image file), there are two ways of
> doing it. One is to simply include the relative path to the file
> (relative to the doc root), like:
> 
> /graphics/my_portrait.gif
> 
> Or you can include the full URL, like:
> 
> http://example.com/graphics/my_portrait.gif
> 
> My casual observation seems to indicate that the former will load
> faster than the latter. But has anyone done any benchmarking on it?

There is no difference - the browser will resolve relative URLs to
absolute URLs before issuing the HTTP GET.


/Per


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