Using CapacitorHttp together with base href tag

[nip3o]

We run Capacitor with the Http plugin patching enabled. We are using the HTML base element in the app to specify a server URL like this: <base href="https://www.example.com/" />

Yesterday we ran into a problem with a view implemented in HTMX where it made an AJAX request to the path /some/view. The request was then served by the browser rather than via CapacitorHttp, which led to CORS issues when the request was sent to https://www.example.com/some/view. The reason is that Capacitor sees this as a relative path and calls the unpatched method.

I'm not sure if the problem here is that HTMX should have looked at the base-tag and added it to the URL before making an AJAX call, or if Capacitor is naive because it assumes that any URL that does not start with http will not be sent to a remote server? Is this a Capacitor bug, or could it at least be documented better?