Absolute and Relative Links

I have a drop down control and the items in it are links. The code I have to do this will work for absolute links like http://www.winzip.com:

String url = "http://www.winzip.com";
try { theURL = new URL(url); }
catch ( MalformedURLException e)
{
System.out.println("Bad URL: " + theURL);
}
getAppletContext().showDocument(theURL);



but it work work for relative links:

String url = "index.html";
try { theURL = new URL(url); }
catch ( MalformedURLException e)
{
System.out.println("Bad URL: " + theURL);
}
getAppletContext().showDocument(theURL);



Does anyone know why it won't work or how to get it to work?

Scott
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I think this will work:

try {
URL mainURL = new URL("http://www.winzip.com");
String rel = "index.html";
URL theURL = new URL(mainURL, rel);
} catch (Exception e) {
// anything
}