[imp] displaying images in embedded html on SSL hosts

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Liam Hoekenga <liamr@umich.edu>:

> hey guys -
> 
> our IMP installation is on a secure webserver.  we've enabled the display
> of
> inline html - mainly to allow people to read messages from hotmail and
> such w/o
> having to spawn a separate window (as hotmail's messages all seem to show
> up as
> html attachments).
> 
> anyways... we get the broken key icon for <img
> src="http://blah.com/blah.jpg">
> tags in said html email messages (as secure web pages don't want to
> display
> images located on non-secure sites)... we commonly see this in messages
> like the
> "advertising circulars" sent out by buy.com, amazon, etc (when they
> choose to
> send you "html" email instead of plain text).
> 
> on normal, secured websites, we normally display graphics from non-secure
> sites
> by using a cgi wrapper (we call image):
> 
>  
> #!/bin/csh
>  
> if ($?PATH_INFO) then
> 
>    echo "Location: `echo $PATH_INFO | cut -c2-2048`"
> 
> else if ($?QUERY_STRING) then
> 
>    echo "Location: $QUERY_STRING"
> 
> endif
> echo ""
> 
> and our image src tags look like:
> 
>    <img src="/cgi-bin/image?http://www.blah.com/blah.jpg">
> 
> might it be possible to have IMP do something similar if HORDE is told
> to
> generate https URLS?  

I think, that shouldn't be to much work. view.php could handle the 
redirection and someone has to write a regexp for the HTML MIME viewer.

Patch?

Jan.

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