Re: ShortURLs vs BaseURL in Base HREF tags

St.Ego wrote:
> The tradition of using &xar-baseurl; as the URL for the base tag appears 
> to break CSS when combined with ShortURLs, since the xarServerGetBaseURI 
> does not seem to take ShortURL settings in var/config.
> 
> The only solution I've found is to make the Base URL in the theme's page 
> template static for each site that makes use of ShortURLs.
> 
> Has anyone else stumbled on this, and is there a better solution that 
> I'm missing?
> 
> -St.Ego

The other solution is to always use absolute URLs, such as those 
generated by xarModURL() and other API functions.

If the short URL scheme looks like a directory path, the browser can't 
tell that it isn't a directory path, and will tack relative paths onto 
it, and will request files from a location other than where they are.