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Strange relative links


chopficaro

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i have a question about how relative links work

i went to a particular website and saw that i was 2 subdirectories deep, that is i was at www.blabla.com/bla/bla/page

then i looked at the source code of the page and saw that the source of an image was src='/images/soso.png'

so one would expect that the full address of this image was

www.blabla.com/bla/bla/images/soso.png

but it wasn't!!! it was at

www.blabla.com/images/soso.png

this is not how these links usually work.

somehow, the browser knew to use the root directory, instead of the current subdirectory of the page. how did it know?

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