Re: Is this use of BASE kosher?

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
Mon, 31 Jul 95 08:31:11 EDT

Peter Sheerin quotes:
> 10. Appendix - Embedding the Base URL in HTML documents
[...]
> <!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>An example HTML document</TITLE>
> <BASE href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/Test/a/b/c">
> </HEAD><BODY>
> ... <A href="../x">a hypertext anchor</A> ...
> </BODY></HTML>

This still doesn't explain how to cater for:

> <!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>An example HTML document</TITLE>
> <BASE href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/Test/foobar.html">
> </HEAD><BODY>
> ... <A href="blort.html">a hypertext anchor</A> ...
> </BODY></HTML>

I do still get a strong feeling that BASE urls should end with a directory
name, not a filename.

///Peter