[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6599: Inpage URLs can be realtive instead of being always absolute.

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#6599: Inpage URLs can be realtive instead of being always absolute.
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 Reporter:  hakre        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General      |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:  wontfix  
 Keywords:               |  
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Changes (by Otto42):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix

Comment:

 This is incorrect. Replacing these absolute URLs with relative ones will
 break all non-default permalink systems.

 Recognize that relative URLs work in one of two ways:
  * from root
  * from the current URL

 Using root level relative URLs would break WordPress's ability to be
 easily installed in a subdirectory of a site.

 Using current URL relative links breaks permalinks, because the point of
 permalinks is that they bear no relationship to the underlying file system
 structure of the site. What is a single relative link to, say, a CSS file
 that works when the current URL is both http://example.com/blog/ and
 http://example.com/blog/2008/04/15/single-post/ ?

 No, we use absolute URLs for a very good reason, and those absolute URLs
 are built on the fly from the settings. The site remains portable when
 coded correctly (using bloginfo('url') calls and similar to display the
 root URL instead of hardcoding it.

 Closing this as invalid.

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