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. As an answer to this question,
please fill in the code for the function "make_absolute" in the script
sample below. Thank you.
Marc.

$content = get ($url);

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

print $content; exit;

sub make_absolute {


}

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 10 Feb 2004 16:04 PST

So you want img tags and a tags? href's and src's ? 

I'm working on this now, with that in mind. If there are other tags
you want besides those two, let me know.

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Question by marcfest-ga on 10 Feb 2004 18:52 PST

Yes, any relative url should become absolute. 

The URI class looks like it would be most useful for this.

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 11 Feb 2004 03:18 PST

I was just going to ask if you could use the URI and the
HTML::LinkExtor class as well.. since it appears you can, then I'll
rewrite this using those. These are much better to use than a regex,
since many things can happen in a page which would cause a regex to
fail, or worse, put the url in there when it wasn't needed.

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Clarification of Question by marcfest-ga on 11 Feb 2004 03:25 PST

Yes, I can use these modules.