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Bug 3614 - Invalid handling of base tag + mailto:
Summary: Invalid handling of base tag + mailto:
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LinkChecker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: checklink (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ville Skyttä
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://www.intelectric.nl/
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Reported: 2006-08-22 11:41 UTC by Tim Heesters
Modified: 2006-08-22 12:19 UTC (History)
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Description Tim Heesters 2006-08-22 11:41:05 UTC 
Documents that contain a base-tag and mailto:-anchors are handled incorrectly. 

e.g.
...
<base href="http://www.example.com/" />
...
<a href="mailto:john.doe@example.com">John Doe</a>
...

is interpreted as:

<a href="http://www.example.com/john.doe@example.com">John Doe</a>

which of course does not exist...

As per specification, only relative URIs are to be resolved using the base tag, and as far as i know mailto:john.doe@example.com is not a relative URI.