docs($location): clarify guide regarding link handling

The trick with setting `<base href=".">` has not worked since Angular 1.2.0.
It is also misleading that it talks about `$routeProvider.otherwise`
which is not important in this case.

Related to #8869
Closes #8908
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Tobias Bosch
2014-09-03 09:28:04 -07:00
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@@ -211,6 +211,10 @@ facilitate the browser URL change and history management.
## Hashbang mode (default mode)
In this mode, `$location` uses Hashbang URLs in all browsers.
Angular also does not intercept and rewrite links in this mode. I.e. links work
as expected and also perform full page reloads when other parts of the url
than the hash fragment was changed.
### Example
@@ -250,6 +254,10 @@ having to worry about whether the browser displaying your app supports the histo
- Opening a regular URL in a legacy browser -> redirects to a hashbang URL
- Opening hashbang URL in a modern browser -> rewrites to a regular URL
Note that in this mode, Angular intercepts all links (subject to the "Html link rewriting" rules below)
and updates the url in a way that never performs a full page reload.
### Example
```js
@@ -298,8 +306,8 @@ history API or not; the `$location` service makes this transparent to you.
### Html link rewriting
When you use HTML5 history API mode, you will need different links in different browsers, but all you
have to do is specify regular URL links, such as: `<a href="/some?foo=bar">link</a>`
When you use HTML5 history API mode, you will not need special hashbang links. All you have to do
is specify regular URL links, such as: `<a href="/some?foo=bar">link</a>`
When a user clicks on this link,
@@ -314,17 +322,9 @@ reload to the original link.
Example: `<a href="/ext/link?a=b" target="_self">link</a>`
- Absolute links that go to a different domain<br>
Example: `<a href="http://angularjs.org/">link</a>`
- Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path when base is defined<br>
- Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path<br>
Example: `<a href="/not-my-base/link">link</a>`
When running Angular in the root of a domain, along side perhaps a normal application in the same
directory, the "otherwise" route handler will try to handle all the URLs, including ones that map
to static files.
To prevent this, you can set your base href for the app to `<base href=".">` and then prefix links
to URLs that should be handled with `.`. Now, links to locations, which are not to be routed by Angular,
are not prefixed with `.` and will not be intercepted by the `otherwise` rule in your `$routeProvider`.
### Relative links