TYPO3 Core

Works for me in content element headers, should work for RTE etc

Does NOT work in HMENUs. HMENUs don't use typolinks so no effect - compare name of the config var!

When does it fail for you?

In my opinion we need a setting to affect all links generated by TYPO3. What sense does it make to have typolinks do one thing while linkData ("the mother of all typo3-links") still doesn't know about it?

I would suggest to add a new setting called "linkCheckRootline" and have this done by linkData (which is used by typolink, but also by HMENU, FORM, SEARCHFORM and any other link generating function).

any news on that? Would be nice if it finally would also be available for menus - regardless if someone finds this useful or not.

This can be worked around by using the following typoscript code in the menu:

NO.doNotLinkIt = 1
    NO.stdWrap.typolink.parameter.field = uid

+1 to have this on any link like Ernesto suggested

Martin Kutschker has released an ext for this issue:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/p2_menudom/0.1.1/

Wonder why the fix wasn`t added to the core?

Please read the associated bugreport #18432

The fix has been integrated in TYPO3 version 4.2.0.

Please test, if the bug is still present for you in the new version 4.2.0

If not, I will mark this report as resolved

really strange, for me
config.typolinkCheckRootline = 1
does not work.
I use Typo3 Version 4.2.1

I suggest to close this one.

HMENUs now use typolink to generate the links, so this issue should be gone in that (most common situations). There are only some minor places where linkData is used in typo3-core (FORM, SEARCHFORM that submit to another internal page not in domain), but those are probably almost never links to another domain.