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@@ -41,3 +41,13 @@ Here's a patch:
 
 It works for me, but it has the odd side-effect of prefixing links with a space.  Fortunately that doesn't seem to break browsers.
 And I'm sure someone else could come up with something better and more general.
 
 It works for me, but it has the odd side-effect of prefixing links with a space.  Fortunately that doesn't seem to break browsers.
 And I'm sure someone else could come up with something better and more general.

+
+--[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+> The `<base href>` is required to be genuinely absolute (HTML 4.01 §12.4).
+> Have you tried setting `url` to the public-facing URL, i.e. with `alfred`
+> as the hostname? That seems like the cleanest solution to me; if you're
+> one of the few behind the firewall and you access the site via `betty`
+> directly, my HTTP vs. HTTPS cleanup in recent versions should mean that
+> you rarely get redirected to `alfred`, because most URLs are either
+> relative or "local" (start with '/'). --[[smcv]]