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<a href="www.stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">click here</a>
Clicking the above link on a site’s HTML page would try to take the user to
<site>/index.html/www.stackoverflow.com
Where as following works fine
<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">click here</a>
What is the rationale for this behavior?
There are several protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FILE, SSH, SSL, FTP. In addition, as Jeremy mentioned, it’s quite possible you may have a file on your server with the exact name of the text you’re entering in the HREF.
Basically, any text in the href without a protocol is assumed to be a relative path if there is no
/or protocol.