diff --git a/‎gitlab/client.py‎
Lines changed: 12 additions & 10 deletions b/‎gitlab/client.py‎
Lines changed: 12 additions & 10 deletions
diff --git a/‎tests/unit/test_gitlab.py‎
Lines changed: 3 additions & 5 deletions b/‎tests/unit/test_gitlab.py‎
Lines changed: 3 additions & 5 deletions
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ class Gitlab:
         user_agent: A custom user agent to use for making HTTP requests.
         retry_transient_errors: Whether to retry after 500, 502, 503, 504
             or 52x responses. Defaults to False.
-        persist_base_url: reconstruct next url if found not same as user provided url
+        keep_base_url: keep user-provided base URL for pagination if it
+            differs from response headers
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ def __init__(
         order_by: Optional[str] = None,
         user_agent: str = gitlab.const.USER_AGENT,
         retry_transient_errors: bool = False,
-        persist_base_url: bool = False,
+        keep_base_url: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
 
         self._api_version = str(api_version)
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ def __init__(
         #: Timeout to use for requests to gitlab server
         self.timeout = timeout
         self.retry_transient_errors = retry_transient_errors
-        self.persist_base_url = persist_base_url
+        self.keep_base_url = keep_base_url
         #: Headers that will be used in request to GitLab
         self.headers = {"User-Agent": user_agent}
 
@@ -1143,19 +1144,20 @@ def _query(
                 search_api_url = re.search(r"(^.*?/api)", next_url)
                 if search_api_url:
                     next_api_url = search_api_url.group(1)
-                    if self._gl.persist_base_url:
+                    if self._gl.keep_base_url:
                         next_url = next_url.replace(
                             next_api_url, f"{self._gl._base_url}/api"
                         )
                     else:
                         utils.warn(
                             message=(
-                                f"The base url of the returned next page got "
-                                f"different with the user provided "
-                                f"{self._gl.url}/api* ~> {next_api_url}*, "
-                                f"since this may can lead to unexpected behaviour. "
-                                f"set argument persist_base_url to True for "
-                                f"resonctruct it with the origin one."
+                                f"The base URL in the server response"
+                                f"differs from the user-provided base URL "
+                                f"({self._gl.url}/api/ -> {next_api_url}/). "
+                                f"This may lead to unexpected behavior and  "
+                                f"broken pagination. Use `keep_base_url=True` "
+                                f"when initializing the Gitlab instance "
+                                f"to follow the user-provided base URL."
                             ),
                             category=UserWarning,
                         )
 
@@ -359,30 +359,28 @@ def test_gitlab_plain_const_does_not_warn(recwarn):
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "kwargs,link_header,expected_next_url,show_warning",
     [
-        # normal execution
         (
             {},
             "<http://localhost/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2>;" ' rel="next"',
             "http://localhost/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2",
             False,
         ),
-        # got different url and will show the warning
         (
             {},
             "<http://orig_host/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2>;" ' rel="next"',
             "http://orig_host/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2",
             True,
         ),
-        # persist the base url
         (
-            {"persist_base_url": True},
+            {"keep_base_url": True},
             "<http://orig_host/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2>;" ' rel="next"',
             "http://localhost/api/v4/tests?per_page=1&page=2",
             False,
         ),
     ],
+    ids=["url-match-does-not-warn", "url-mismatch-warns", "url-mismatch-keeps-url"],
 )
-def test_gitlab_persist_base_url(kwargs, link_header, expected_next_url, show_warning):
+def test_gitlab_keep_base_url(kwargs, link_header, expected_next_url, show_warning):
     responses.add(
         **{
             "method": responses.GET,