Re: HTML 3.2: BASE element

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In article <2.2.16.19960521165203.415f6362@pop.interaccess.com>,
"Harold A. Driscoll" <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us> wrote:
>          <BASE href="http://foo.com/images">
>          ...
>          <IMG SRC="bar.gif">
> 
>     The image is deferenced to
> 
>          http://foo.com/images/bar.gif

Well, I suppose this has to be /images/, but why do you need a
filename after it? "http://foo.com/images/" is a correct URI, isn't it?
It just happens to point to a directory rather than a file.

I don't see the problem here. Shouldn't the browser simply use the value
from the BASE HREF as the starting point to resolve relative URLs, like
it would with normal URLs? So wouldn't using "http://foo.com/images/"
as base href result in /images/bar.gif in the example above?

Galactus

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Received on Wednesday, 22 May 1996 15:18:36 UTC