[Zope] Question about the base href that Zope adds automatically

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

> 
> can anyone explain me why zope always adds the <base
> href="http://my.server.com/" /> to every HTML file it's serving. What's the
> purpose of this, and is it really necessary?


It's because when a browser accesses http://host/folder and
http://host/folder/ your browser should understand the relative URL
within your documents.

Without the basehref, your browser will think that http://host/folder
is a html-file, and prepend http://host/ to relative URLs. It will
however understand that http://host/folder/ is a folder, and prepend
http://host/folder/ to relative URLs there. So depending on the
trailing slash, you might get different results.


> 
> By the way, is there an easy way to get rid of this if it's not necessary?
> 

Put in your own, or edit python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py if you
*really* want to get rid of it.


  -jf