lynx-dev base href -- how generated by Lynx?

[William December Starr]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> said:

>> Note: the Telos webmaster has told me that he'll be putting an
>> explicit "BASE HREF=..." line in the header the next time he
>> updates the page, so experimenting with that particular URL may,
>> in the near future, no longer produce the odd results.
>
> It appears that he's done that now, though the content location is
> still there.

Ah, so he has, and now everything works right there.  In a way it's a
pity; it deprives us of a convenient platform to run tests upon.

> But the base href does override the content location:

[ extracted HTML code *snipped* ]

Which indeed a Good Thing, but still leaves the... bug/feature/? in
place regarding (some) pages which don't have the explicit "base
href=..."  commands in their headers.

Does anyone have an answer to my original question, i.e., which
version of Lynx -- 2.7.1 or 2.8.4rel.1 -- is (well, now it's 'was')
producing the correct default base href?  (And why?)

-- William December Starr <address@hidden>


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