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

• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack

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.

WORKAROUND

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 this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

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

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

   myfile.htm.