Ah, a perfect opportunity for me to complain about one of my many pet peeves: intra-site links that mention "http://www.perlmonks."

There are several ways you could make such a link:

• If you type [http://www.perlmonks.net/index.pl?node=perlman%3Aperltie#Tying_Hashes|http in brackets] you get http in brackets
  
  
• If you type <a href="http://www.perlmonks.net/index.pl?node=perlman%3Aperltie#Tying_Hashes">http in HTML link</a> you get http in HTML link
  
  
• If you type <a href="/?node=perlman%3Aperltie#Tying_Hashes">site-relative HTML link</a> you get site-relative HTML link
  
  
• If you type <a href="?node=perlman%3Aperltie#Tying_Hashes">relative HTML link</a> you get relative HTML link

Only the last one is acceptable to me as the first two can redirect someone from www.perlmonks.ORG to www.perlmonks.NET (for example), where they may not have a cookie (or might have a different cookie) and so will suddenly find themselves not logged in (for example). (update) The third one could take someone from perlmonks.org/wap/index.pl to perlmonks.org/index.pl and so should be avoided (although PerlMonks itself is still very guilty of this sin and so the "wap" directory doesn't even exist yet, but such features are planned and hoped for).

Note also that the "index.pl" is optional in the URL (I've left it out of the last two but not the first two).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")