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golimoli
golimoli

Reputation: 143

Mapping hyperlink name to address

I am trying to write python code to extract links from a web page. As per logic, I am looking
for the sequence <a href="">. The code extracts the link address from a normal anchor tag like -
<a href="https://www.google.com", but I see that there are other ways of specifying hyperlinks
as under - 

 <a href="/news/">News</a>
 <a href="/docs/">Documentation</a>
 <a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a>
 <a href="/support/">Support</a>

On clicking '/news/' the address that it resolves to is "https://www.reviewboard.org/news/".
How does this happen, and where is this information stored ?
Because '/news/' is useless by itself unless converted to complete string
https://www.reviewboard.org/news/.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 201

Answers (1)

SimonR
SimonR

Reputation: 1824

These are relative links. It's the link relative to the page where the link is found.

So if I am on www.somewebsite.com/somepage, and I encounter this link:

 <a href="/someotherpage/">Some other page</a>

It will take me to www.somewebsite.com/somepage/someotherpage

These work the same way a relative path works, including ../ syntax to point back up through the file structure.

Upvotes: 1

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