[Zope] base href

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:33:13PM +0100, Thieu-Hon Tran wrote:
> Am 15.11.2002, 14:26 Uhr schrieb Michael St?ckel:
> -----------------------------------
> >Hello List,
> >
> >I noticed that Zope adds a <base href... > tag to my HTML-Head.
> >
> >Why and how can i stop it?
(snip)
> Or you can insert your own base-tag, which also prevents Zope from
> adding it. (see http://www.zope.org/Members/wisser/base)

Before you go fiddling with it, you should understand that
it's there for a good reason.

If you view a folder bar/foo, you get bar/foo/index_html.
But your browser doesn't know the difference. 
Relative links should be relative to bar/foo, but
your browser thinks foo is a document so it
tries to get them relative to bar/.
So when zope invokes a folder's default view, it
inserts the <base> tag.

i fiddled with it at one point and found that with no <base> 
tag at all, viewing zope folders directly (not specifying index_html)
resulted in many lost images.

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