turning relative into absolute urls

[Felix]

Hi -

I need a perl function ("make_absolute")that turns all relative URLs
in an html document into absolute URLs, using the URL from which the
document was fetched as an argument (see script below), and then
returns the updated, entire html document.

I fiddled with Perl classes like URI and HTMLarsner but wasn't able
to get it right. Thanks a bunch.

#script:

$content = get ($url);
$content = &make_absolute ($content, $url);

print $content; exit;

sub make_absolute {

# need code here

}

 

[gnari]

Hi -

I need a perl function ("make_absolute")that turns all relative URLs
in an html document into absolute URLs, using the URL from which the
document was fetched as an argument (see script below), and then
returns the updated, entire html document.

I fiddled with Perl classes like URI and HTMLarsner but wasn't able
to get it right. Thanks a bunch.

I think it would be more productive, if you told us in what way you
were not able to get it right with these. I am sure a lot of people here
will gladly (gleefully, even) point out what you are doing wrong.

do you need a general solution working with any valid HTML,
or is the HTML structure a known and simple structure, that
regexes would be able to handle?

gnari

 

[Tore Aursand]

I need a perl function ("make_absolute")that turns all relative URLs
in an html document into absolute URLs, using the URL from which the
document was fetched as an argument (see script below), and then
returns the updated, entire html document.

perldoc HTML::LinkExtor


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