Originally Posted by seiretto

Hi Peter,

Your suggestion, which I am not saying is right or wrong, requires the use of the HTML BASE tag:
Links in HTML documents

eg. Without it your final recommendation would link to:
www.the--domain.com/a-directory/a-directory/some-other-page.html
which would return an 404 error! Oh no.

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