>If the host was www.theguardian.com, we would rewrite all the URLs on the site to be www.theguardian.com. If the Host was www.guardian.co.uk we would rewrite all the URLs on the site to be www.guardian.co.uk.
wat?
wat?
I'm intrigued as to why changing to relative domains wasn't possible. If nothing else pushing 'http://www.theguardian.com' out for every link adds to a lot of bytes up for a busy site.
pushing 'http://www.theguardian.com' out for every link
adds to a lot of bytes up for a busy site
$ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | wc -c
223195
$ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \
sed s'~http://www.theguardian.com~~' | wc -c
215473
$ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \
gzip | wc -c
33783
$ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com/us | \
sed s'~http://www.theguardian.com~~' | gzip | wc -c
33554