[TYPO3-dev] config.baseURL and section links: page needs to be reloaded because of hardcoded base element?

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi Masi,

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Uschi Renziehausen schrieb:
>> Hello Dmitry,
>>
>> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Uschi Renziehausen wrote:
>>>> If so, I would like to know whether this base element is needed for 
>>>> anything? If not, can we then please get rid it asap? What is the point 
>>>
>>> You *must* have it for realurl/cooluri.
>>>
>> I know, but I am interested in why, or better: is the base element in 
>> html code necessary 
> 
> Please think about how the way URLs within an HTML are handled. Then 
> consider how standard TYPO3 URLs differ from the ones that Real URL 
> generates.
> 
> I'm sure you can figure out the answer yourself.
>

Yes and no. Some how those nice url extensions have to figure out the 
complete url. If we did not have base href and the complete path in the 
links they would have to do it by figuring out the relative path. So why 
this way round and not the other? Just out of interest.

Uschi