December
9th 2008
Posted under Open Source & Web
Relative paths look like /images/filename.jpeg, explaining the relationship between the current location and the resource. Fully qualified paths are complete addresses, and look like http://domain.com/images/filename.jpg.
Sometimes you need to translate between the two. Think of absolute urls as the third normal form of the web.
The complete solution has 138 lines in two classes, but this includes fetching the content from the internet. Filling in a host name and path for each relative link is easy. You can download the full implementation
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