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Themes urls

Lurking at sm.org, I read the report of a user that was having problems with the theme switching between http and https.

Without entering into the specific details, what I'm wondering is: why do we have to define the full URL for themes not on a "special" (e.g. with the assets stored on another domain) setup?
Why not simply store the relative url and append it to $boardurl?
That would also cut down on maintenance in case of address changes[1], one less parameter to fix.
1 Yeah, okay, not so frequent...mostly for established sites, a bit more frequent for new sites that start maybe on 3rd level domains at free services and then have to either another free service or a proper domain↵
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Re: Themes urls

Reply #1 –

The only thing you need the full URL for is for emails. Other than that, I don't see a need to not use a relative URL. I think I wrote about this somewhere on SMF.

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Reply #2 –

That as well, but I was a bit shy to propose to go that far. :P
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Reply #3 –

Why not? Browsers now change it to a fully qualified URI when you copy it

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Reply #4 –

I am afraid I didn't follow.

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Reply #5 –

Actually, I have a problem with this too using Multi Forum Addon. I think I might have edited the index.template.php to make sure all themes work accross all domain urls.