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Comment by technion

It's annoying that none of these end up parsing quite like the HTML inside a website.

For example, on google.com, you can find:

<img class="lnXdpd" alt="Google" height="92" src="/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"

But open the console and run this, and it will throw:

let x = new URL("/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png");

You're supposed to address this by adding the base URL on the end, but then correctly obtaining that can be brittle. If you're browsing a folder, the whole document.location is the baseURL, but if you are browsing a file (ie ends in .php or .html) it isn't. If you're taking user URLs, your browser's URL bar will add https:// automatically so people don't think about it, but they'll leave it out of an absolute URL and now you need to detect and add it if needed.

parent technion 2 years ago

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