Question

I have a script I wish to dissuss/comment on. That includes a line:

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$html =~ s/<\/head>/<base href="$baseurl"<\n<\/head</i;

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In it's original format the start of the <base href tag breaks lots of stuff. Even now the above line in preview is wrong ("/cgi-bin/oops/Support/BaseHRefIssue?template=oops" vs "$baseurl").

If I change the &lt, &gt around base href to <, > I can't even save the page.

• TWiki version: ONLINE
• Web server: ONLINE
• Server OS: ONLINE

P.S., in 010315Beta it works "corretly", but behaviour varries between NS and IE

-- DrewCard - 14 Jun 2001

Answer

Have you tried putting the script text in <verbatim> tags, e.g.:

$html =~ s/<\/head>/<base href="$baseurl">\n<\/head>/i;

This avoids breaking the HTML. However, it does not fix the preview showing oops-type URLs, which IMO is a bug. The <verbatim> tag requires the Dec 2000 TWiki build at least, before that you have <pre> which is not so good.

Since we are discussing this code ... this can be written avoiding the /-escapes etc as:

$html =~ s#</head>#<base href="$baseurl">\n$1#i;

-- RichardDonkin - 14 Jun 2001

It seems the <verbatim></verbatim> tags are just the trick...

-- DrewCard - 15 Jun 2001