[Webdev] URL writing problem

[Philip Reynolds]

I've got an inkling of a problem with mod_rewrite and I would like
some ideas. I've got one or two of my own, but they're more
workarounds or hacks, and I'm thinking they're might be a better way
to do this.

Say for example you request

www.foo.com/news/

You're first argument news is fed to my PHP script which then does
it's stuff.

www.foo.com/news

First argument is still fed, considering i wrote the rewrite rule in
such a way as the trailing slash doesn't matter. However the problem
is with the browser.


I want to specify relative links, so the link in HTML is 

<A HREF="blah/">Blah</A>

However, with the first URL with the trailing slash, you get 

www.foo.com/news/blah

with the second, you get

www.foo.com/blah

Can anyone see any fixes for this, without specifying absolute
URL's/PATH's ? There are other workarounds, including wrappers, to
make sure the URL always ends in a '/', but that's a bit messy.

Perhaps I'm missing something totally..

Regards,
Phil.
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