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Combine explicit protocol specification with relative URL

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Pointy 2010-08-09 16:37:32

Yeah, I've pretty much accepted that. I was just hoping someone could point out a library or jquery plugin or something that turned that into a one-liner. It's not hard to build, but if someone's already been through all the edge cases and identified a clean, unobtrusive way of wiring it up.....

Seth Petry-Johnson 2010-08-09 16:38:50

I don't think this would work. `anchor.href` is resolved to the full URL even if the provided href was a relative URL.

CD Sanchez 2010-08-09 17:51:40

@Daniel that's true in modern browsers, making this even easier to do, but not true in old versions of IE. Before IE8, you'd get back whatever was authored into the attribute in the original markup.

Pointy 2010-08-09 19:29:01

@Pointy: Thanks! Good to know. I don't have any old browsers installed (ignorance is bliss as they say). Do you know if the `anchor.pathname` property is automatically resolved in older browsers for relative URLs? I would assume so -- if so, you can let the browser do some of the work and remove that conditional logic for the relative URLs.

CD Sanchez 2010-08-09 19:55:36

@Daniel I don't remember exactly - that kind of thing is not something I've really had to deal with very much, so most of what I know is from stuff I've read here and there, and a small amount of random experience.

Pointy 2010-08-09 20:02:11

FWIW `.href` returns the fully qualified url consistently, even in old IEs. You're thinking of `.getAttribute('href')` which by spec should return the value set in source, but IE forces you to pass in a magic second argument to it in order to get the raw attribute value.

Crescent Fresh 2010-08-09 20:54:45

Hmm OK @Crescent Fresh, thanks for the clarification!

Pointy 2010-08-09 21:08:59

Answer 2

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$("a").each(function () { 
    this.href = "https://" + window.location.host + this.pathname + this.search + this.hash;
});

You could provide a more specific selector to make sure it doesn't mess up any links you didn't intend to change, but I leave that up to you since you know the requirements.

CD Sanchez 2010-08-09 17:38:26

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