Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: SCEE Support Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: SCEA Site Access Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:12:35 +0100 Organization: SCEE Lines: 50 Message-ID: <33832D03.7D82@interactive.sony.com> References: <3382C788.5282@hyper.gr> <3384d130.74394053@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chuka.playstation.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) To: Mark Always eager to help, we've extended our scripts to automatically fix up absolute reference and make them relative. (We do the same for the SCEI site). But we strongly agree with your point - relative addressing is always better than absolute addressing for portability reasons. [...sorry, broke into C-speak ...] Paul Mark wrote: > > On Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:36 +0300, Vassilis > wrote: > > >I was trying to look into Bill Romanowski's "Cool" Home Page in the US > >Net Yaroze Site but although we can access the first page, accessing the > >downloads or anything else on his page requires password and European > >ones don't work over there. Can this be fixed ? > > Not unless he rewrites his pages, no. He has explicitly coded > references within the Net Yaroze site to point at ww1.scea.sony.com. > There is nothing that SCEE/SCEI can do unless they go in and recode > links - and I think that they have better things to do!! :-) > > It would be better if all HTML references from the home directories > are made without explicit mapping. ie by not putting in full paths > to your information. > > If you are willing to work at it, you can get to the pages by > examining the page source, and code. So that the > > http://www.playstation.co.uk/yaroze_scea/pages/bromanowski.html > > has a link to downloads at > > http://ww1.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/bromanowski4.html > > this will need to be re-written to read > > http://www.playstation.co.uk/yaroze_scea/pages/bromanowski4.html > > which in this case is just adding a 4 to the end of the URL > > Hope this helps. > > Mark