Same thing -- once the document is retrieved, the URL is only used
for resolving embedded relative URLs.
> One beta
> client even allows multiple BASEs to be present in any part of the document.
That is a bug.
> The HTML 3 spec is ambiguous (to me anyhow), as to how BASE is to
> be interpreted.
At most one BASE is allowed, and it can only appear within the HEAD part
of the document. No ambiguity there, though the spec referred to should
be HTML 2.0.
These and other issues are documented in the Internet-Draft at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/WWWdocs/papers/draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-00.txt
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>