[Zope-CMF] CMF base tag rant

[Dieter Maurer]

Simon Eisenmann wrote at 2004-3-4 09:18 +0100:
>Dieter Maurer wrote:
>> A browser should interpret the empty URL reference as a
>> reference to the current document -- independent of the value
>> of the "base" tag.
>
>Well all browsers handle relative urls dependent of the base tag (as 
>they should imho), including the anchor links which are relative to the 
>current base.

RFC2396, section 5.2 specifies how relative URL references should
be translated into absolute URLs. It reads:

   1) The URI reference is parsed into the potential four components and
      fragment identifier, as described in Section 4.3.

   2) If the path component is empty and the scheme, authority, and
      query components are undefined, then it is a reference to the
      current document and we are done.

Thus, a relative URL reference of the form "#fragment" refers
to the current document, independent of the base URI.

-- 
Dieter