WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries en Fri, 24 May 2013 16:54:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-22103 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:30:28 +0000 timethief 22103@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ check - *rhetorical question* will you be closing this thread then or do you want to continue forum discussion?

]]> ryan on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-22102 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:27:08 +0000 ryan 22102@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This would be a notable change to core WP, so it's an issue to discuss with the development community. Let's say it's on the list of interesting things to mull over and possibly someday implement. :-)

]]> timethief on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-22101 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:21:59 +0000 timethief 22101@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So ryan does that mean it's now officially on the wish list? ;)

]]> ryan on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-22099 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:15:33 +0000 ryan 22099@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WP relies heavily on absoute paths so this would require some work. It's something to think about though.

]]> drmike on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-22041 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:46:10 +0000 drmike 22041@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why not just remove that portion of the URL?

Also realize what may occur if those certain countries noticed that system admins were making these changes in an attempt to get around the blocking. Think they would ever allow access again?

]]> timethief on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-21913 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:54:24 +0000 timethief 21913@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm surprised none of our beloved geeks have responded to you. I can't help so I'm bumping this up on the forum borad.

]]> twofish on "Relative links to circumvent firewallof certain countries" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/relative-links-to-circumvent-firewallof-certain-countries#post-21879 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:00:12 +0000 twofish 21879@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just a request. Would it be possible to change the text so that the links are relative links rather than absolute links? Having the text be relative links rather than absolute links makes it much easier to set up a reverse proxy, which makes it much easier to circumvent the firewall blocks of certain countries which have blocked wordpress.com IP addresses.

If the links are relative links, then it is a trivial matter to set up a reverse proxy on an unblocked address and change that address if that gets blocked. Since, there are absolute path names in wordpress code, this becomes much harder.

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