[ic] Force external image links to inherit page security

[Busarow Dan]

The browser will use the same protocol as the main page.  Just like a relative url automatically supplies the host and possibly subdirectories, in this case the browser supplies the protocol.

Dan
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On Dec 5, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Paul Jordan <paul at gishnetwork.com> wrote:

>> Leave the protocol out completely.
>> 
>>  <img src="//foo.bar.jpg" />
>> 
>> I haven't tried this for images but it works fine for hrefs so img tags
> should be
>> good too.
>> 
>> Dan
> 
> 
> Dude... awesome. This will be perfect!
> 
> I guess the browser understands that if it is inside an "<img..." to use
> http(s) as opposed to 'ftp:' or whatever?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Dan Busarow
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>> 949 496 6648 x218
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>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Paul Jordan <paul at gishnetwork.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I am working on a system where I need to host images - mostly product
>> images, in the cloud.
>>> 
>>> Is there a (built in) mechanism to write plain ole http:// src's to the
> page,
>> but have the page sense if it is being requested via https, and exchange
> any
>> 'http' with 'https'?  Or, is there perhaps a method to declare a variable
> twice,
>> once for http requests and once for https requests? If so, then I could
> do:
>>> 
>>> S3_IMAGES    http://.....    https://.....    Cloud product images
>>> 
>>> I realize I can use ImageDir and ImageDirSecure, but these are only
> singular
>> solutions. I need to leverage a couple of these (as if I we're using
> multiple
>> clouds). Obviously I can do a bunch of If-Secure-Else in all my pages, but
> I was
>> hoping for something more elegant.
>>> 
>>> Or if nothing else, has anyone needed to use multiple external asset
> hosts
>> and deliver the same page(s) via http and https?  What did you come up
>> with?
>>> 
>>> Worst case scenario, I can poor man it:
>>> 
>>>  [if type="explicit" compare="[is-secure]"]
>>>      [tmpn ssl]s[tmpn]
>>>  [else]
>>>      [tmpn ssl][tmpn]
>>>  [/else]
>>>  [/if]
>>> 
>>> <img src="http[scratch ssl]://foo.bar.jpg" />
>>> 
>>> But... that seems like the old me :-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Paul
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