Link relatively to https

[kusco]

This is nagging me really..
How do you construct a menusystem that links relatively from a http to https ?

Since it has to relative there can not be any https://hostname/ at the start.

Are there no means to get around this ?

[rtrethewey]

No. By definition, a relative link is based on the location of the parent document. The browser then constructs the complete URL using that information. Good luck!

[kusco]

Yes, I've learned that by now.

But aren't there any meas to dynamically switch the 'base' (http or https) dynamically ?
Javascript ?

[rtrethewey]

Yes, you could change all of the links on a page or just those within a particular section to use https with Javascript. It wouldn't be a trivial piece of code because you'd have to check each href attribute to see if it was pointing to your domain or an external site. And, of course, you'd have to deal with turning relative URLs into complete URLs. But it could be done.

It would be much simpler to use JavaScript to detect if the page was loaded with http and then self-redirect it using https. Then all of the internal links on that page would be using https, both relative and complete URLs.

Good luck!

[touch_the_sky1]

Check protocol relative urls

[Delois]

if it is ok just keep the Https:// portion to limited secure pages where it is require and if there is a duplicate URL with https:// which can be crawled then block that url otherwise there may be an issue of duplication

[wywm299471]

if it is ok just keep the Https:// portion to limited secure pages where it is require and if there is a duplicate URL with https:// which can be crawled then block that url otherwise there may be an issue of duplication

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[sonialondon]

The advantage of hard coding an HTTPS based URL is that you will have already loaded the resource (e.g. javascript) in the HTTP part of the your site ready for use in the HTTPS part.Assuming that you cache everything except HTML the cached resource can be used in HTTPS part of your site with no network round trip.
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[DominicMason]

you can use a custom middleware to redirect from https to http (or vice versa) for centrain URLs or URL patterns. This could also be done in Apache (or other web server) configuration.

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[welsh]

As rtrethewey said, you could use Javascript to do what you want, it wouldn't be too overly complex to do a a simple loop to loop through all page links on the page load and update the href depending on what its currently set to and what the browser location is at.

That's the only real way to dynamically switch the base url of your links.

Or just force them to the https side of your website.