Is using absolute paths for images / scripts a good idea?
I have a website where I update the urls for example to rewrite to be more SEO friendly. By doing this, it broke many script / image links on different pages. The only way around this (from what I can tell) is to use the absolute path to scripts / images in the pages.
Now if I'm not mistaken (or missing something) this should be pretty safe? Anyone who knows anything about websites and / or web development will be able to develop directories for images / scripts simply by looking at the current url and matching against relative paths.
I would like to know if there are any real reasons why this would be a problem.
Thank.
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There are no security implications, but it will make life harder for you if you ever move your site (to a different domain, for example) as you have to update all URLs from http://www.example.com/media/mynicepicture.jpg
to http://www.mynewexample.com/media/mynicepicture.jpg
. If you are using relative urls, you dont need to update your urls if / when moving domains.
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