Bug ID 448896: BASE HTML tag handling

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.2 HF1, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.4.1 HF4, 11.4.0 HF8

Opened: Feb 13, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

HTML page with base URI (HREF attribute of BASE tag) defined may be processed incorrectly in some cases: - if value of base URI is set using setAttribute(); - if value of base URI contains non-empty path (for example: 'http://some.com/some/path'); - if HTML page contains form with relative or hostless action path (for example: 'some/path/action.html' or '//some/path/action.html').

Impact

Relative URIs may be rewritten incorrectly.

Conditions

This occurs when using url rewrite.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

An HTML page with base URI (HREF attribute of the BASE tag) is rewritten correctly.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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