href base not working in IE 7 Windows XP / Vista

[ro1960]

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It seems that the <base href="http://www.example.com"> trick is not correctly interpreted by IE 7 Windows XP / Vista.

If you are on a page in this format:

http://www.example.com/news/123456

and then you click on another link like thispage.php, you are taken to:

http://www.example.com/news/thispage.php

instead of

http://www.example.com/thispage.php

A problem that doesn't occur under Firefox or Safari.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:25 pm (utc) on Sep. 21, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[g1smd]

That's nasty.

From memory, I think I usually include the trailing slash for pages that are the bare domain name or a bare folder.

[jdMorgan]

I agree -- Try the trailing slash.

I'd also advise not to depend on such client-side 'fixes'. Link to the correct canonical or server-relative URL so that you don't depend on the browser (or robot) to fix your links.

To be clear, link to "http://www.example.com/thispage.php" or to "/thispage.php" instead of linking to "thispage.php"

Jim

[ro1960]

I had the trailing slash before and it doesn't make a difference. The problem only happens with menu items which are generated by a javascript include located in /nlsmenu/lib/. So adding a LEADING slash to my links in this menu like /thispage.php solved the problem. Thanks for your help on that.

[g1smd]

Ah, if there was no trailing / on the base tag URL, <b>and</b> no leading / on the local path name, then I could see that going very wrong on you.

[ro1960]

Could you please elaborate? I am very curious to know what you mean.