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4302	"Fix usage of ""absolute URL"" in the documentation"	Malcolm Tredinnick	nobody	"Django's documentation is using the term ""absolute URL"" in a way that is inconsistent with existing standards. We should fix that; it leads to errors too easily.

The relevant definition to apply is in section 3 (and also section 1.4) of RFC 2396: An absolute URI includes everything from the scheme (""http:"", etc) onwards. All other URIs are relative.

Documentation that needs to be updated
 * get_absolute_url() -- all our examples are relative and absolute URLs are in the sites documentation. Add a link between the two and some explanation.
 * The location field in sitemaps.
 * A few places in syndication_feeds.txt

This are all purely documentation/explanation changes. We aren't doing anything fundamentally wrong in the code (outside of !HttpRedirect) that I know of."		closed	Documentation	dev		fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0