Create an HTML link to a file in another port?

Question

The tag below ceates a link to a page without having to provide the full URL:

<a href="foo.html">link</a>

So if you click it from example.com/, you'll go to example.com/foo.html. Is there a way to create a link that'll go to example.com:port/foo.html instead?

Have you seen [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6016120/relative-url-to-a-different-port-number-in-a-hyperlink) or [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8317059/relative-path-but-for-port)? — Iswanto San, Mar 05 '13 at 03:45
Elephant - I think Dokkat is after a relative link not an absolute link. That way the code is portable across servers. — Derek Tomes, Mar 05 '13 at 03:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

See here -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/6016361/773263

// delegate event for performance,
// and save attaching a million events to each anchor
document.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
  var target = event.target;
  if (target.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'a')
  {
      var port = target.getAttribute('href')
                       .match(/^:(\d+)$/);
      if (port)
      {
         target.port = port[1];
      }
  }
}, false);

Seems to be the best way to do it. I don't think a purely HTML solution is possible.

Create an HTML link to a file in another port?

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