diff --git a/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java b/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
index 47c7afc44..89d5e6783 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ public class htmlFilterContentScraper extends htmlFilterAbstractScraper implemen
     static {
 	linkTags0 = new HashSet();
 	linkTags0.add("img");
+        linkTags0.add("base");
 
 	linkTags1 = new HashSet();
 	linkTags1.add("a");
@@ -118,14 +119,14 @@ public class htmlFilterContentScraper extends htmlFilterAbstractScraper implemen
 
     public void scrapeTag0(String tagname, Properties tagopts) {
 	if (tagname.equals("img")) images.put(absolutePath(tagopts.getProperty("src", "")), tagopts.getProperty("alt",""));
+        if (tagname.equals("base")) try {root = new URL(tagopts.getProperty("href", ""));} catch (MalformedURLException e) {}
     }
 
     public void scrapeTag1(String tagname, Properties tagopts, byte[] text) {
 	//System.out.println("ScrapeTag1: tagname=" + tagname + ", opts=" + tagopts.toString() + ", text=" + new String(text));
 	if ((tagname.equals("a")) && (text.length < 2048)) anchors.put(absolutePath(tagopts.getProperty("href", "")), super.stripAll(new serverByteBuffer(text)).trim().toString());
 	if ((tagname.equals("h1")) && (text.length < 1024)) headline = super.stripAll(new serverByteBuffer(text)).toString();
-	if ((tagname.equals("title")) && (text.length < 1024)) title = super.stripAll(new serverByteBuffer(text)).toString();
-        if ((tagname.equals("base")) && (text.length < 512)) try {root = new URL(tagopts.getProperty("href", ""));} catch (MalformedURLException e) {}
+	if ((tagname.equals("title")) && (text.length < 1024)) title = super.stripAll(new serverByteBuffer(text)).toString();        
     }