NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows User's Guide

Partial URLs

Once you have displayed a document, you can use a partial, or relative, URL to point to another file in the same directory, on the same machine, being served by the same server software. For example, if a file called anotherfile.html exists in the same directory as the current document, then anotherfile.html is a valid partial URL at that point.

This provides an easy way to build sets of hypertext documents. If several hypertext documents are sitting in a common directory, they can refer to one another (i.e., they can be hyperlinked) by just their filenames -- no matter the browser reached one of the documents, a hyperlink to any other document in that directory can be created by merely using the other document's filename as the partial URL. The additional information (access method, hostname, directory name, etc.) will be assumed based on the URL used to reach the first document.

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