> > I do not think that ill-behaved clients should guide design
> decisions. Cluttering all my payload up with redundant information per
> default only increases message size (maybe even significantly - in
> contexts with only few textual data, you can easily double the message
> size).
>
> Ok, I hear your point. Didn't take into account performance of small
> message payloads.
Actually the size of the payload is not the driving factor. It is just the percentage of the base URL repeating. Even in a huge document it could happen that it is full of repeated base URLs.