Re: [GMG-Devel] URL issues for non-local storage

[ayleph]

On 10/31/2015 02:01 AM, ayleph wrote:
> On 10/27/2015 01:00 AM, Dylan Jeffers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Wanted to start a dialogue about a particular issue (see link below)
>> where the URL to a media gets mangled if it's stored non-locally. When
>> using PyPump, or Goblinoid, it is impossible to view the media. As this
>> issue occurs with one of our best instances, pump.goblinrefuge.com, it
>> would be great if we could figure it out. I am willing to take it on
>> with a bit of assistance, if this bug is indeed something you all feel
>> we should address.
> 
> I've figured out what the problem is, but I'm not sure how to solve it.
> The API assumes all thumbs and full images live on the pump host, so the
> API prepends the pump host URL to all locations returned by the storage
> object. We may need a switch in there that simply returns the image URL
> if files are hosted externally and prepends the pump host if files are
> hosted locally.
> 
> More details here: https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5342#comment:1

I've provided one possible solution to this issue. It's tested working
on one of my development instances. Details at the link below.

https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5342#comment:2

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ayleph