Resolving relative URLs

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Resolving relative URLs #12

Closed JornWildt closed 9 years ago

JornWildt commented 9 years ago

How should a client resolve relative URLs in links and actions?

Relative to the URL from which the resource was requested?
Relative to the innermost parent "self" link?
Should they be forbidden (or at least discouraged - which is what the version 2 spec says)?

xogeny commented 9 years ago

The client should absolutely resolve relative URLs and absolute path URLs. I'm always surprised that this is not considered a best practice in APIs. There is a very good reason to have relative URLs and absolute path URLs and there are RFCs that define how they should be resolved. So there is no ambiguity except to specify a base URL. I would say relative to the requested resource. Although it would be nice to have some kind of meta data (as with HTML) to specify/override this.

JornWildt commented 9 years ago

See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hal-discuss/t1xld7fsYyM for a discussion in the HAL forum.