html - Short way to link to http from https (and vice versa) using relative links

Question

When I′m in a secure part of a web-site I′m developing (entering a specific page or folder using https), the relative links to the normal pages are automatically converted to https as well.

Is there a way to tell an <a> tag to always use the http protocol instead of the https protocol (or the other way around)?

I know it′s easy using the complete link (http://www.mysite.com/index.html or https://www.mysite.com/index.html), but I would like it to work with relative links (index.html, ../index.html, etc.).

Answer 1

You can make all your internal links be protocol independent by using the following syntax:

<a href="//some/file/on/your/domain.php">link text</a>

instead of

<a href="some/file/on/your/domain.php">link text</a>

the // will make the link respect whatever protocol the page was loaded over.