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i havent tried showoff.io and little curious about how about internal reference translations? for example css files?

does this <link rel="stylesheet" href="localhost:3000/mystyle.css"/> translates to <link rel="stylesheet" href="myserv.showoff.io/mystyle.css"/> ???

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Out of interest, why use absolute URLs at all if the files aren't on a different server? Won't you have to go through and change them all when you deploy?

Anyway, re: translations, I believe it's a tunnel so your local server is visible to the outside world as myserv.showoff.io - thus, no translation of anything.

my bad, internal references will be relative only (<link href="../Images/favicon/16x16.ico" rel="Shortcut Icon" /> ) so no need for translation. i dont know why i thought what i thought

Hey maheswaran,

Showoff doesn't touch the body of the requests, so you'd need to use relative URLs, change the "domain" config variable each time you make a new showoff tunnel, or set up an unlimited account where you can choose a permanent subdomain like "myserv.showoff.io".

Until you can't/don't pay the monthly charge and you have to change all your URLs.

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