[Zope] Why base href?

[Alexander Staubo]

You turn it off -- just comment out some code in HTTPResponse.py -- but
who knows what the side effects might be. I asked about this some time
ago and my impression was that nobody knows exactly why it's there.
Maybe some (obsolete?) peculiarity with DTML, I dunno.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
>Christian Andreassen
>Sent: 10. juni 1999 20:47
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] Why base href?
>
>
>For some reason, Zope sometimes add a <base href=> tag in HTML
>documents.
>When Zope is used in combination with Apache and Apache is
>configured to
>rewrite incoming requests to a Zope folder that is not the
>root folder, this
>will cause trouble if there are any relative URLs in the
>documents. The way
>Zope determines the URL in the base href in combination with
>the way Apache
>rewriting works will often, after clicking around the site a
>few times, lead
>to something like
>www.mysite.org/mysiteroot/mysiteroot/mysiteroot/somedoc in
>the address line of the browser. It looks ugly, it tricks the
>browser from
>caching documents properly and visited links will look unvisited.
>
>Does anybody know why <base href> is inserted automatically?
>Any tricks for
>turning it off?
>
>
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