Get the URL base

[Brian Genisio]

What is the most reliable way to grab the URL base for a document?

I can get window.location.protocol + window.location.host +
window.location.path... and that would work most the time, but if the
<BASE> tag is used, the URL base changes to that tag.

Is there a one-stop-shop location to retreive the URL base of the document?

Thanks,
Brian

[Michael Winter]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:50:52 -0500, Brian Genisio <Br**********@yahoo.com>
wrote:

What is the most reliable way to grab the URL base for a document?

I can get window.location.protocol + window.location.host +
window.location.path... and that would work most the time, but if the
<BASE> tag is used, the URL base changes to that tag.

Is there a one-stop-shop location to retreive the URL base of the
document?

Try:

var baseAddr = null;

if( document.getElementsByTagName ) {
var elems = document.getElementsByTagName( 'base' );

if( elems.length ) {
baseAddr = elems[ 0 ].href;
}
}

If 'baseAddr' is null, try parsing the document URL.

Of course, you might not actually need the base address; it depends what
you're using it for.

Mike

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Michael Winter
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[Brian Genisio]

Michael Winter wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:50:52 -0500, Brian Genisio
<Br**********@yahoo.com> wrote:

What is the most reliable way to grab the URL base for a document?

I can get window.location.protocol + window.location.host +
window.location.path... and that would work most the time, but if the
<BASE> tag is used, the URL base changes to that tag.

Is there a one-stop-shop location to retreive the URL base of the
document?

Try:

var baseAddr = null;

if( document.getElementsByTagName ) {
var elems = document.getElementsByTagName( 'base' );

if( elems.length ) {
baseAddr = elems[ 0 ].href;
}
}

If 'baseAddr' is null, try parsing the document URL.

Of course, you might not actually need the base address; it depends what
you're using it for.

Mike

What I need it for is tricky... I am writing my own DOM (not in JS), and
my application that uses the DOM needs to know the base URL for
retrieving links with relative paths. When I realized I didnt have it
anywhere in the DOM model, I thought that possibly I was missing
something. I wanted to be able to put in the same place the JS engine
would find it. But, if there is no direct method for retrieving it, I
have no issue.

I can create a method that is not exported to the JS engine for the
application.

Brian