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Subject: Re: FLASH: URL Relative References
From: Ward Johnson
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:54:15 +0100

Neil,
the path name is #1, because the browser reads the html to find out
where the .swf files are.
Ward J.


>Hi there,
>
>Having recently checked my server error logs if find that I'm getting
>several "File does not exist" errors concerned with URLs coming from .swfs
>
>Is there an absolute rule about how relative URLs are calculated?
>
>For example: take an html file and it's embedded .swfs
>
>/docs/index.html
>/docs/media/flash1.swf
>
>If I create a GO TO URL action in flash1.swf of, say "/boats/file1.htm"
>
>when it's clicked on, is this URL created relative to the html file or the
>.swf? That is, will the resulting pathname be:
>
>1) /docs/boats/file1.htm
>or
>2) /docs/media/boats/file1.htm
>
>Because the latter of the two is a similar format to the error in the log
>files.
>
>I don't know what browser the person who's created my error-log entries was
>using but I'll put money on it that it was MacIE4.5
>
>Anyone got any experience of this or can someone categorically say which of
>the two paths I will get each and every time the URL is clicked.
>
>TIA
>
>Neil MacLennan
>neilatreality [dot] co [dot] uk
>
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