Hello all, I could not find anything on the absolute path in Ktor routing on the internet. Do you know a way one can link to a path generated form absolute top level of the app? e.g.

route("") {
    route("/{year}/{month?}/{day?}") {
        get {
            call.respondHtml{
                title { +"title" }
                body {
                    a (href = "$baseUrl/somepath") { +"link to top level" }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

In this example, if I do

href="/somepath"

, it will go to different places if month or day is given.

Could you please explain what do you mean by a path generated from the absolute top level of the app?

Hi Alekseit, thanks for the reply. I wondered if (in the example above) one could use a link created with absolute path in the href. So if you are in the

route("someEndpoint")

and do

a (href="/test")

, you will get a link which is

/someEndpoint/test

for the href. However, if you want to get to

/test

, you need to do

a (href="../test")

. This works in a normal route method. But when your route has optional arguments as above, this will give

/test

,

/year/test

or

/year/month/test

if no month and day is given, month is given or month and day are given, respectively.

When I use

href = "/test"

then a web browser always points me to

<protocol://host>:port/test

no matter what the current URL is, e.g. http://localhost:8080/2020/10/23. Please describe how exactly do you observe such behavior?

Oh I am really sorry. You're actually right. My mistake was that since I have

install(IgnoreTrailingSlash)

, I did not put the leading

/

in the path for

href

. Without the leading slash it follows current path but with that it goes form the base path. Thanks a lot. 👍