HTML Links in Brook or fpWeb "session"
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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RedOctober · 2021-03-23 23:42

Platform:  Lazarus 2.0.10, FPC 3.2.0  Brook 5 Framework 5.4.7
I'm sure fpWeb has this same situation.

I have a Brook 5 server running.  I hit it with a request from my
browser.  A page is returned from the Brook 5 Server app.  The
returned page has a <a> link in it (with a target of _blank)  that is
directed to www.google.com.  I click the link, and the browser tries
to open the link, but it can't bc the local path to the Brook 5 Server
is prepended to the link.  Let's say my initial page was:

https://localhost/arr

(I get the page back with the link <a> in it)

I click the link, trying to get to www.google.com

But the link is prepened as follows:

https://localhost/arr/www.goole.com


How can I construct the URL, or change some setting, to tell the
browser to just go to the URL listed in the <a> tag, and not prepend
it with the domain and protocol of the container page?

Thanks in advance.

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egsuh · 2021-03-24 04:48

Can you show me the "response" content from web server?  There are no
such thing in fpweb.

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PierceNg · 2021-03-24 05:06

Quote from: RedOctober on March 24, 2021, 12:42:15
amhttps://localhost/arr/www.goole.com

If the HTML returned by the server says <a href="www.google.com"></a>
then the browser will open in your case <a
href="https://localhost/arr/www.google.com"></a>.

If the URL is specified fully in the HTML, like <a
href="https://www.google.com/"></a> then the browser will open that
URL.

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RedOctober · 2021-03-24 15:04

PierceNG got it.  I prefixed with the protocol and it's OK now. 
Thanks for that. I knew it was something simple.

I seem to remember back in the day when I was building small stand
alone servers using Delphi and IntraWeb I had the same problem.  So I
assumed all stand alone Microsoft Windows .exe servers had this
issue.  If I wrongly accused fpWeb, my apologies.