Hi, I am having some trouble using web templates that web designers at my company are creating. The management here has told me that my Perl programs must use the header and footer that the web designers have created. Since the perl programs are in a different directory than the templates, the web designers have put in references to images using the full URL (ex: http://blah.com/img/navleft1.jpg). I am told that this is ineffecient as it causes more web connections to the server as opposed to using a relative link. Is this true? If so, is there a way that I can read the header and footer files and make my program output relative image links as if the script is in the HTML directory? Thanks, I would appreciate any help, or even links to where I can learn more about this.

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