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Bug 18009 - base.href shouldn't reflect the content attribute normally. It needs to be resolved against the document's URI *before* <base> is applied; otherwise "foo/" resolves to "http://whatever/foo/foo/" instead of "http://whatever/foo/".
Summary: base.href shouldn't reflect the content attribute normally. It needs to be r...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: CR
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-18 08:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-26 12:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 08:00:49 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 15752 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-01-27 19:37:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-01-27 19:37:22 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-base-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-base-element

Comment:
base.href shouldn't reflect the content attribute normally.  It needs to be
resolved against the document's URI *before* <base> is applied; otherwise
"foo/" resolves to "http://whatever/foo/foo/" instead of
"http://whatever/foo/".

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 #1   Aryeh Gregor                                    2012-01-27 19:37:33 +0000 
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See Gecko bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600809
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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2012-08-15 17:13:38 UTC 
Filter on [Idon'tcareaboutHTMLWGbugspam].
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2013-04-26 12:41:20 UTC 
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Status: Accepted

Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/a90eb2b97fdae8513850a8e6edcadb4b9c15bfff

Rationale: accepted WHATWG change