 Re: difference between relative path and full URL
"shawn" <shawn@noemail.nowhere.com> wrote:
>My question is does anyone know the difference between specifying a relative
>path such as
><img src="images/myimg.gif"> and full URL
><img src="http://mysite.com/images/myimg.gif">?
>
>Does the second one issue an additional http request?
The same for both.
>if so, i have all my
>images in a page with full URL, will that slow down the page download time?
Full urls require a few more bytes in the code, other than that, no.
>Best of all, is it possible to deliver both text/html and image/gif in one
>http request? I suspect that typically they are separate requsts to the
>server, right?
Most servers support http 1.1 pipe lining nowadays.
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Spartanicus
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