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I'm not sure if this is an editor problem or a technical problem due
to a different path being used
(a) when the page in question,
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/messages/ip/docs-html/featured.html
is displayed by the welcome script
than is being used
(b) when the page is being edited and tested
but there seems to be a path-length problem with the page:
> CCN Featured Information Provider
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Our current featured Information Provider is the [1] Law Reform
> Commission of Nova Scotia!
>
> The Law Reform Commission has just released it's newest report [2]
> Mortgage, Foreclosure and Sale. There are summairies of the report in
> [3] English, [4] French, and [5] Mi'gmaw.
>
> The home page is also available in [6] French and there are links to
> many other [7] Legal Organizations in Canada, the United States and
> around the world.
>
> In 1995 their site was nominated as Best Legal Resource in the
> Canadian Internet Awards. Check it out!
The URLs generated by the links on the page are:
1. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/index.html
2. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/mortgage2.html
3. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/summaryMFS2.html
4. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/summary2MFS2.html
5. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/summary3MFS2.html
6. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/index.html.fr
7. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/otherlaw.html
To single out one URL as an example, link [1]:
On "Featured IP" page:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Policy/Law/LRC/index.html
The correct URL:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Law/LRC/index.html
The links as coded on the page: (reformatted)
<A HREF="../../../Law/LRC/index.html">Law Reform Commission
of Nova Scotia</A>!
<A HREF="../../../Law/LRC/mortgage2.html">Mortgage, Foreclosure
and Sale</A>.
English
French
Mi'gmaw
French
Legal Organizations
It appears that not enough '../'s were used and the "/Policy" directory
wasn't removed from the path obtained from the referring page.
Perhaps, instead of "../../../" (bad) or "../../../../" (better), it
would be safer to code the full path by using a leading "/" as in
English
as the welcome page would (presumably) always be using the "http" URL
and never the "file://localhost/..." one or, even safer, code the
fully-qualified path:
English
I am also wondering why the background icon and the <font ...> tag is
used here when the only people to access the welcome page are those
logged in to CCN with lynx -- or do 'outsiders' also get to see the
"Featured IP" page as well?
<body background="../../../Icons/paper.gif">
<h1 align="center"><font color="#000080">CCN Featured Information
Provider</font></h1>
Norman De Forest http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html
af380@chebucto.ns.ca [=||=] (A Speech Friendly Site)
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