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Reply posted by David Broscious on Thu 19 Apr 2001 in response to Opening database relative URLs in JavaScript

A couple of "Gotchas"

First, when I tried to implement the function I ran into the problem that some
files end with ".NSF", not ".nsf". Say, for example, my pathname is
"/bob/giggy.NSF: and the url passed in is "pagetoopen", I'd get
"/bob/giggy.NSF/pagetoopen.nsf" when using:


path = location.pathname.split('.nsf')[0] + '.nsf/';


I don't know whether or not there are ucase and lcase equivalents in JavaScript
(I am curious). My solution was to replace the line above with:


path = location.pathname.slice( 1, location.pathname.lastIndexOf("/"))


Second, beware of the the "default target for links in frame" when working with
framesets. I called the function from within anchor tags on a page that served
as the source of the "left" frame. I wanted all of the links to open in the
"right" frame. No matter how I wrote the "target" variable, the function would
not work until I turned off the "default target" property for the "left" frame
(it had been set to "right").


Just a couple of things caveats. It's a great function that has enabled me to
replace forms that I had been using with pages.


Thanks,


David