Hi! I am trying to determine whether to use Pathologic or Relative Path to Absolute URLs (http://drupal.org/project/rel_to_abs), and my question is whether the issue regarding https (where Pathologic recommends using all or no https on a site when rewriting the URL as an absolute path due to caching) is unique to Pathologic, or also applies to Relative Path to Absolute URLs? I wanted to convert my links into absolute URLs for SEO purposes, but the HTTPS issue has me confused as to how I can successfully accomplish this while only having https on my ubercart order form.

Thanks!

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Garrett Albright commented

Frankly, your problem would be solved if you would stop underestimating the intelligence of search engine spiders. Converting paths into absolute URLs shouldn't have any effect on the spiderability of your site; spiders know how to resolve relative paths into absolute ones, just like web browsers do. Frankly, if this is your only concern for wanting your paths to be absolute instead of relative, then you don't need to use either of these modules.

But to answer your question, yes, you will have the same caching problems with rel_to_abs as you will with Pathologic, as they both function in a similar way.

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Garrett Albright commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Closing.