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[Aaron Wells <1234582@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

As described by Robert while investigating another bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1219499/comments/5

The problem where some images are not showing up is because they tend to
be protocol relative urls to the images and the Mahara system tries to
append a url to them but this makes the path incorrect.

eg for slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/rss/latest)

There are image links in the feed like:

//cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/lptrnhc2008cbnnhtnghththutit360-130902225125-phpapp02-thumbnail-2.jpg

and mahara sees this as a relative url and appends
http://www.slideshare.net/ to the front if it which then makes

http://www.slideshare.net//cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/lptrnhc2008cbnnhtnghththutit360-130902225125-phpapp02-thumbnail-2.jpg

which is an incorrect url and the image will not be found there

Need to alter the code in htdocs/blocktype/externalfeed/lib.php from
/src="(\/[^"]+)"/ to something that doesn't try and update protocol
relative urls

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: rss

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234582

Title:
  Can't display images in RSS feeds with protocol-relative URLs

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As described by Robert while investigating another bug report:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1219499/comments/5

  The problem where some images are not showing up is because they tend
  to be protocol relative urls to the images and the Mahara system tries
  to append a url to them but this makes the path incorrect.

  eg for slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/rss/latest)

  There are image links in the feed like:

  //cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/lptrnhc2008cbnnhtnghththutit360-130902225125-phpapp02-thumbnail-2.jpg

  and mahara sees this as a relative url and appends
  http://www.slideshare.net/ to the front if it which then makes

  http://www.slideshare.net//cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/lptrnhc2008cbnnhtnghththutit360-130902225125-phpapp02-thumbnail-2.jpg

  which is an incorrect url and the image will not be found there

  Need to alter the code in htdocs/blocktype/externalfeed/lib.php from
  /src="(\/[^"]+)"/ to something that doesn't try and update protocol
  relative urls

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