Question

I’m running a site (in a development environment) that has http://172.31.129.188:8888/pp/ as its base url.

From http://172.31.129.188:8888/pp/pingpong I have this ajax call:

$.post('pingpong/check/',
    function (data) {
        alert(data);
    }
);

The problem is that while Firefox and Explorer call http://172.31.129.188:8888/pp/pingpong/check (as I want), Chrome makes a call to http://172.31.129.188:8888/pp/pingpong/pingpong/check. I’ve tried various combinations (like adding and removing the slashes etc) but still Chrome seems to have a different approach.

Can anyone help to unify the behavior? Thanks

Answer 1

In my opinion, Chrome is behaving correctly and IE/Firefox are not. URLs are either absolute with a domain, relative to the domain-base if they start with a slash (/) or relative to the current location.

If you access b/c from /a/b that should be /a/b/b/c not /a/b/c as the b is relative to the current location, it should not match part of the location and continue from there. If you need to use relative URLs try calling check/ to see if that behaves appropriately.