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Currently <base href="..."> tags are not taken into account and will send the spider to the wrong URL on pages with a base tag. With this patch, the spider correctly calculates absolute URLs when a base tag is present.

@ericmason ericmason changed the title Respect <base href="..."> tags Respect base tags Feb 17, 2017
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Spotted a few minor things.


def base_uri
if (html? && doc)
base_tag = doc.search('//base[@href]').first
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To avoid pulling in all matching nodes, should use doc.at(...) instead of .search.

def base_uri
if (html? && doc)
base_tag = doc.search('//base[@href]').first
base_tag ? URI(base_tag.get_attribute('href')) : url
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I try to avoid using trinary flip-flop expressions. I would use a standard if (foo = ...) then foo.bar / else baz here.

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