Microsoft KB Archive/159431

= FP97: WWW Links to Current Web Lose "http://" Prefix =

Article ID: 159431

Article Last Modified on 6/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q159431



SYMPTOMS
In FrontPage Editor, when you use the World Wide Web tab of the Edit Hyperlink dialog box to create a link, FrontPage analyzes this link. If the link points to the web in which the file is saved, the link is converted from a "World Wide Web" style link to a "current web" style link. That is, the "http://" is removed from the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the link, and the link is stored relative to its location in the current web.



CAUSE
FrontPage performs this conversion on all hyperlinks in the current web. It does this in order to make the web more portable. Once the shortened link is stored, it will function within that web no matter where the web is moved.



To create an absolute link to a file in the current web
In the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, click the Current FrontPage Web tab, and, in the Page box, type the full URL to the page.

To convert a link from a "current web" link to a "World Wide Web" link
Select the link in FrontPage Editor, click HyperLink Properties on the Edit menu, click the Current FrontPage Web tab, and then type the full URL in the Page box.

To modify an absolute link to a page in the current web
In the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, make sure that the Page box on the Current Web tab contains the full URL before you click OK or Apply.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in MicrosoftFrontPage 98 for Window.



Example
If you save a page called "myfile.htm" in a web called "test" on a server called "www.myweb.net," the full URL to that page would be the following:

http://www.myweb.net/test/myfile.htm

If you link to that file from another file in the test web by typing the following in the URL box on the World Wide Web tab (of the Edit Hyperlink dialog box),

http://www.myweb.net/test/myfile.htm

the link will be analyzed and will be converted automatically to this:

myfile.htm.

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