This code should IMHO substitute "/style.css" with "http://freshmeat.net/style.css". i.e. add an hostname to all hrefs (if they don't have one).
however, it does not work. Any ideas anyone ? 
sub blahify(\$$)
{
        my $bla = ${shift()};
        my $url = shift;
        my @x = ();

        my $host = $url;
        my $there = $url;
        $host =~ s%(http://[^/]*?/).*%$1%i;
        $there=~ s%(http://[^/]*?/.*/).*%$1%i;

        while($bla =~ m%(href="[^"]*")%ig) {
                my $boo = $1;
                next if $boo=~ m%href="http://%i;

                if( $boo =~ m%href="(/.*?)"%i) {
                        push @x, $1;
                        next;
                }

                printf STDERR "bad href: $boo\n";
        }
    
        foreach (@x) {
                print "killing $_\n";
                $bla =~ s/$_/$host$_/i;
        }
        my $foo = $x[0];
        print "ALERT\n"if($bla=~/$foo/);
        return $bla;
}

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In reply to adding hostnames to absolute links by zodiac

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