Why base tag does not work for relative paths?

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I have a <base> tag as below in <head> section of the page:

<base href="http://localhost/framework">

And a script as below which is relative (of course after <base>):

<script src="/assets/jquery-1.7.1.min.js">

But when I open jQuery from firebug it shows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body> 
Blah Blah Blah....

When I use the below link it's OK though:

<script src="http://localhost/framework/assets/jquery-1.7.1.min.js">  

I looked for an answer everywhere, but it seems I'm doing my job right! So what is the problem?

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