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| author | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> | 2014-10-05 15:56:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> | 2014-10-05 15:56:19 +0100 |
| commit | 532f7adfdba3c852487216b0241b25d3de57acc6 (patch) | |
| tree | a60cab10931514018069fbac24968a180b38d108 /doc/todo/Protocol_relative_urls_for_stylesheet_linking.mdwn | |
| parent | fe9e94513ab0d57f182a6922957ea14c773b4fae (diff) | |
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Use protocol-relative URIs if cgiurl and url differ only by authority (hostname)
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Protocol_relative_urls_for_stylesheet_linking.mdwn b/doc/todo/Protocol_relative_urls_for_stylesheet_linking.mdwn index ccbaf4e73..0ab4814e6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Protocol_relative_urls_for_stylesheet_linking.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Protocol_relative_urls_for_stylesheet_linking.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ but this breaks all sorts of things, like the 404 plugin and wiki rebuilds will > protocol-relative URLs in this situation, but it isn't clear to me how > widely-supported those are. > +>> HTML5 says protocol-relative URLs work, and they seem to be widely +>> supported in practice, so I've changed the rule to: if the url and cgiurl +>> share a scheme (protocol) but differ only by hostname, use `//foo/bar` +>> protocol-relative URLs. This partially addresses this todo. +>> I'm still thinking about what the right thing is for more complicated +>> situations: see [[todo/design for cross-linking between content and CGI]]. +>> --[[smcv]] +> > If you set both the `$config{url}` and `$config{cgiurl}` to https, but make > the resulting HTML available over HTTP as well as HTTPS, that should work > fine - accesses will be over http until the user either explicitly |