"Mark Of The Web" disturbs relative urls

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AbrahamLincolnIllinois@yahoo.com - 06 Sep 2005 18:31 GMT

Greetings!

When I view this html file on Internet Explorer 6.0, I can't click the
link and go.

<html>

<head>
<title>
The Main Page
</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="./sub1.htm">Go to sub-page.</a>
<p>
</body>
</html>

If I remove the "Mark Of The Web," I can.

What is going on? Is there a workaround, or a recommended way of
coding this?

Regards,

Rick

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AbrahamLincolnIllinois@yahoo.com - 07 Sep 2005 18:10 GMT

Okay, I answered my own question. I'll put the answer here,
in case it helps out the next guy.

The target url, the one you are going to, also has to have the
"Mark of the Web." Once that is done, the code works.

When a file has the MOTW, it means "although this file is technically
on the disk, it is really out there on the internet." That's why it
is okay to run it: it's treated as "out there" and so it can't write
a file to disk or run a program.

The 2nd file has to be in the same category, or it isn't safe.

Regards,

Rick

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"Mark Of The Web" disturbs relative urls