Allow base URL to contain some path

[barancev]

🚀 Feature Proposal

Allow base URL to contain some path, don't strip it to the site only.

Motivation

Suppose you have to test a multi-language site and a language mark is a part of URL. For example,
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us

Base URL in this case should be "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us" instead of "https://support.microsoft.com", and open command argument should contains an URL relative to "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us"

So a user will be able to switch easily to another language (e.g. https://support.microsoft.com/ru-ru)

[corevo]

It is hard to understand which part of the url is the resource, and which is the base.
Although this is true for the microsoft example, there are plenty of websites, where the case is not true, for example https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/issues/505, you could argue that either "https://github.com/", "https://github.com/SeleniumHQ" or "https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide" is the base url, but you would never argue that https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/issues/505 is the base url.
issues/505 is the resource we currently want to test, but not the canonical base url we necessarily want to use.
For that case it is fairly hard to understand which part of the resource is canonical and which is not, so we treat the resource as non-canonical.

[barancev]

Selenium IDE should not detect base URL, a user explicitly sets this value.

[corevo]

The user puts in a url to start the recording from, not necessarily the base url that all the tests will be ran against.

[barancev]

The dialogue text is: "Before you can start recording, you must specify a valid base URL for your project. Your tests will start by navigating to this URL."

So I interprete this statement as both:

1. this URL will be set as base URL
2. the tests (in execution phase) will start by navigating to this URL
   and
   3)* (implicitly) the recorder will start by navigating to this URL too

[tourdedave]

See #504