I know this module is outdated, but there is no URL module at cpan that someone recommended I use. All I want to do with the module is get all the page links and make the relative links "/foo/foo.htm" into absolute hrefs "http://www.foo.com/foo/foo2/foo/foo.htm" The code posted at CPAN on how to do this confused me, as there is a portion there where they use this 
url("http:foo")->abs("http://host/a/b")     ==>  "http:foo"
  url("http:foo")->abs("http://host/a/b", 1)  ==>  "http:/host/a/foo"

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it seems to me that would do the same thing, only there is extra commas and ) and 1. I dont think thats how it should be used and it seems that it should have made the address "http://host/a/b/foo" instead of what it did. Maybe im just not getting it. Thanks

Update

Okay, i went to cpan and did find the new one, apparently its URI with an I, i thought it was a lowercase L. Anyway, the code still doesnt make sense to me, but i will be using the new URI. Thanks again

20040227 Edit by BazB: Changed title from 'URL::URI'

In reply to Converting relative URLs to absolute URLs by mkurtis

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