Generate canonical / real URL based on base.href or location
- by blueyed
Is there a method/function to get the canonical / transformed URL, respecting any base.href setting of the page?
I can get the base URL via (in jQuery) using $("base").attr("href") and I could use string methods to parse the URL meant to being made relative to this, but
$("base").attr("href") has no host, path etc attributes (like window.location has)
manually putting this together is rather tedious
E.g., given a base.href of "http://example.com/foo/" and a relative URL "/bar.js", the result should be: "http://example.com/bar.js"
If base.href is not present, the URL should be made relative to window.location.
This should handle non-existing base.href (using location as base in this case).
Is there a standard method available for this already?
(I'm looking for this, since jQuery.getScript fails when using a relative URL like "/foo.js" and BASE tag is being used (FF3.6 makes an OPTIONS request, and nginx cannot handle this). When using the full URL (base.href.host + "/foo.js", it works).)
