Re: Is this use of BASE kosher?

Peter K. Sheerin (psheerin@best.com)
Mon, 31 Jul 95 03:48:47 EDT

On 30 Jul 95 at 18:21, Peter Flynn wrote:


> In any case, your example seems to have a major flaw in that the BASE url
> ends with a filename which is _repeated_ in many of the following links.
> That just doesn't seem to make sense.

Hmm. Actually, the example page doesn't have a file name in the BASE URL.
Perhaps you were getting confused by the LINK REL= entries in the header.
My understanding is that these should be completely ignored by the browser
(at least insofar as effecting relative URLs).
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