Re: Redirects: relative vs absolute

Geoffrey Young wrote:

> to generate a URI that points to the same server as the current request 
> it's best to use Apache::URI methods, which are pretty easy.
>
>   my $uri = Apache::URI->parse($r);
>   $uri->path('/some/new/document.html');
>   my $absolute_uri = $uri->unparse;
>
> note that calling path() (or any other method) is optional - you don't 
> need to change anything in order to unparse() the URI and get an 
> absolute URI back.

So basically it's:

my $absolute_uri = Apache::URI->parse($r)->unparse;

So just a heads up for mp2, there is a new method to do that:

use Apache::URI ();
my $absolute_uri = $r->construct_url();

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