Re: Linking in HTML

Stephen Boyd Gowing (sbg@nospam.fox-in.socs.uts.edu.au)
Mon, 21 Aug 1995 16:44:34 +1000 (EST)

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Ryan Shelswell wrote:

> How come when you link to a page such as:
>
> http://ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~ryan/anotherone.html
>
> You don't put in the /public_html/ part of the path? I think it's tricky
> that you don't have to put it in but it actually doesn't work when you do
> put it in... is this /public_html/ a SoCS-determined thing and not a html
> standard, or is there some other explanation?

It's kinda standard, it's a feature in most of the public domain HTTP
servers.

Consider the alternative.

sbg