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>If the host was www.theguardian.com, we would rewrite all the URLs on the site to be www.theguardian.com. If the Host was www.guardian.co.uk we would rewrite a

• peroo 13y ago
  They couldn't change all URLs to be relative, so instead they wrote a filter which would rewrite absolute URLs to match the selected hostname. A simple fix for a relatively complex problem.
  • VBprogrammer 13y ago
    Or a hack which will never be removed from the code-base, depending on your point of view. I'm intrigued as to why changing to relative domains wasn't possible. If nothing else pushing 'http://www.theguardian.com' http://www.theguardian.com' out for every link adds to a lot of bytes up for a busy site.
    • cbr 13y ago
      pushing 'http://www.theguardian.com' out for every link adds to a lot of bytes up for a busy site Fewer than you'd think after gzip compression: $ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | wc -c 223195 $ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \ sed s'~http://www.theguardian.com~~' | wc -c 215473 $ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \ gzip | wc -c 33783 $ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \ sed s'~http://www.theguardian.com~~' | gzip | wc -c 33554 They have 7.7k of extra html due to repeating "http://www.theguardian.com" http://www.theguardian.com" for every link, but gzip compressed this is only a difference of 229 bytes.