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justification for base tag; relative base might be OK in practice

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smcv 2014-09-18 14:27:44 -04:00 committed by admin
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@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another.
* URIs in RSS feeds must be absolute, because feed readers do not have * URIs in RSS feeds must be absolute, because feed readers do not have
any consistent semantics for the base of relative links any consistent semantics for the base of relative links
* If we have a `<base href>` then the HTML spec says it must be * If we have a `<base href>` then HTML 4.01 says it must be
absolute absolute, although HTML 5 does relax this by defining semantics
for a relative `<base href>` - it is interpreted relative to the
"fallback base URL" which is the URL of the page being viewed
([[bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search]], ([[bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search]],
[[bugs/preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]]) [[bugs/preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]])
@ -62,6 +64,11 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another.
[[forum/Using_reverse_proxy__59___base_URL_is_http_instead_of_https]], [[forum/Using_reverse_proxy__59___base_URL_is_http_instead_of_https]],
[[forum/Dot_CGI_pointing_to_localhost._What_happened__63__]]) [[forum/Dot_CGI_pointing_to_localhost._What_happened__63__]])
* For relative links in page-previews to work correctly without
having to have global state or thread state through every use of
`htmllink` etc., `cgitemplate` needs to make links in the page body
work as if we were on the page being previewed.
# "Would be nice" # "Would be nice"
* In general, the more relative the better * In general, the more relative the better