[TYPO3-core] RFC #9412: config.absRefPrefix can force wrong URL when linking across domains

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Georg Ringer wrote:
>> bots can sometimes have troubles with baseUrl and this will get to 
>> paths like
>> fileadmin/img.jpg
>> => fileadmin/fileadmin/img.jpg
>> =>=>fileadmin/fileadmin/fileadmin/img.jpg
>>
>> you get the idea..
>>
>> georg
>> PS: http://typo3bloke.net/post-details/check_your_404_traffic/
> 
> Exactly. Also RealURL now fully supports absRefPrefix. If these two bugs 
> with absRefPrefix are fixed, I will drop statement about baseURL 
> completely from the RealURL manual and recommend absRefPrefix instead. 
> It also prevents ~trivial~ stealing of content (like getting someone's 
> content using subrequest and claiming false ownership) because all links 
> will be absolute to the real site. This is not a great protectection of 
> course but at least something.
> 

gotcha, thx. So main reason is to get rid of <base> tag and only use 
full qualified links.

vg Steffen