Truncating of URL's

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bobd72 Reply #1, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hello all,
When I insert an image into a blog the URL of the image is truncated - src="images/Blog%20Images/296A3372ps500x323.jpg" instead of src="http://www.mysite/images/Blog%20Images/296A3372ps500x323.jpg"

When I call the blog into an RSS feed in some browsers the images do not show. My research indicates that this may be because the complete URL is not being provided? How to I force the full URL to be used?

Thanks

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BobRay Reply #2, 8 years, 11 months ago

When you use a link tag in your Tpl chunk, add &scheme=`full` to it. Here's an example:

[[~[[+id]] &scheme=`full`]]

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bobd72 Reply #3, 8 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Bob,
The rss code I am using seems to be showing the full URL for the first image but not the subsequent ones. My code is:

<item>
  <title>[[+pagetitle:htmlent]]</title>
  <link>[[~[[+id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>
  <description>
[[+content:cdata]]
  </description>
  <pubDate>[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</pubDate>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">[[~[[+id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</guid>
  <dc:creator>
      [[+createdby:userinfo=`fullname`]]
  </dc:creator>
</item>

Firefox accepts the truncated URLs for the subsequent images and displays them but Chrome does not, only displaying the first image with the full URL ?

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bobd72 Reply #4, 8 years, 11 months ago

Further investigation of this returns me to a problem I have had before editing code in Revolution.

If I edit the code for the blog in the Content editor (TinyMCE in my case) and change the URL of an image from src="images/Blog%20Images/296A3372ps500x323.jpg" to src="http://www.mysite/images/Blog%20Images/296A3372ps500x323.jpg" manually and save the html code directly the images then show up - they have the full URL shown in the source code of the RSS in the browser now.

However, if I toggle back to the editor view and the toggle again to the code view again, the code has been changed back to the truncated URL by the editor. If I don't save it the image still shows up ok in the RSS feed, but saving it removes the full URL and it won't show again. The Editor is removing code when I swap views - and it insists on using the shortened URL when choosing an image to insert using the editor view.

I have had this experience before with swapping views and the editor changing my code from pdf to shockwave-flash. http://forums.modx.com/thread/91337/editor-appears-to-alter-code#dis-post-500618

Can anyone else confirm this behaviour and is there a solution? Use of the editor by non-coders is causing problems.
[ed. note: bobd72 last edited this post 8 years, 11 months ago.]