posted 21 years ago
Servers go up and down like pistons in an engine. One day they're up, next day they're down.
In addition, directory structures change, sites get moved, etc. The web changes all the time.
I think hard-coding a URL introduces kind of an ultra-portability issue. Now, all executions of your application depend on the status of a single, particular machine. As far as I know, such central-dependence is totally opposite to what decentralized networks like the web are about.
[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: Micah Wedemeyer ]