publish relative references (hyperlinks)

[C.M.G.]

Win XP sp2
FrontPage Office 2003

For disk-based webs on the local HD, FP records a relative reference for
hyperlinks. When publishing to a remote FrontPage or SharePoint server, the
relative reference is replaced by an absolute reference.

To make a published web site more portable, I would like to make hyperlink
addresses relative. Is it possible to publish a web in this fashion?

Thank you.

Clem.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Clem,

I disagree with your assumption that relative references are replaced. I
have dozens of relative links on the web on my hard drive. When published,
they do not change. However, if you hover over a link, the absolute
reference is visible. For instance, visit this site
(http://www.anthemwebs.com/archive.htm ) and hover over any of the dates in
the table and at the bottom of the browser you will see the absolute
reference. Choose Source from the View drop down menu and look at the code
for those links, all are relative.

When you create the link it will be relative unless you specify otherwise.
If not, how are you creating the link?

 

[C.M.G.]

Charles,

Thank you for your response.

I agree with your observations. The problem arises when I view a page in
internetexplorer and then "save as" *.mht; in that case, the source code is
converted to an absolute reference.

Do you have any idea how I can make the reference relative?

Thanks,

Clem.

 

[Ronx]

Saving as .mht will always produce absolute links. The only way to get
relative links when saving a page from any browser is to View Source,
then save the notepad file at a new location.
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[C.M.G.]

Ronx,

Thank you for your response.

Is there a way of changing the code in the *.mht file? I've tried to edit it
w/ Notepad, but it inserts = signs at the end of every line.

Clem.