[Zope] Wrong <base href=""> for .HTM file

Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:41:25 -0700

These files are in on the file system, accessed thru LocalFS. They are
generated by some application over which I have no control.

-- Loren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Tino
> Wildenhain
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 00:04
> To: Loren Stafford; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Wrong <base href=""> for .HTM file
>
>
> Hi Loren,
>
> beside this, why do you use these file-extensions anyway :-)
>
> Regards
> Tino
>
> --On Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 19:06 -0700 Loren Stafford
> <lstafford@morphics.com> wrote:
>
> > Look at this pywatch output below. When I request a file that
> ends in .HTM
> > the <base> tag ends with a / which confuses the browser. The
> browser makes
> > all relative references in the .HTM file (<img> tags for
> example) relative
> > to http://localhost/Engineering/LSFReports/cibhrm6.HTM/ not to
> > http://localhost/Engineering/LSFReports/ as you would expect.
> >
> > When I try this with a file that is named with a lowercase .htm
> extension,
> > no <base> is generated, and the browser fetches all relative <img> tags
> > just fine.
> >
> > I tried to figure out what HTTPResponse.py is doing with <base>
> but didn't
> > get far. Does anyone else understand what's happening?
> >
> > -- Thanks
> > -- Loren
> >
> >
> > ==> GET /Engineering/LSFReports/cibhrm6.HTM HTTP/1.1
> > ==> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> > application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel,
> > application/msword, application/pdf, */*
> > ==> Accept-Language: en-us,ko;q=0.5
> > ==> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> > ==> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
> > ==> Host: localhost
> > ==> Connection: Keep-Alive
> > ==>  [0.030 - Server connected]
> > <== HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > <== Server: Zope/Zope 2.2.4 (binary release, python 1.5.2, win32-x86)
> > ZServer/1.1b1
> > <== Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:40:34 GMT
> > <== Content-Type: text/html
> > <== Content-Length: 13850
> > <== Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:41:43 GMT
> > <==
> > <== <HTML>
> > <== <HEAD>
> > <== <base href="http://localhost/Engineering/LSFReports/cibhrm6.HTM/" />
> > <==
> > <== </HEAD>
> > <== <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF">
> >
> >
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