Thank you for the advice, yes, our site use https exclusively but yet, several links have // as references. We should actually update all those links and references to explicitly use https://
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 7:36:27 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Protocol relative URLs, starting with // but not specifying http or https, > e.g. //www.example.com/asset.jp <http://www.example.com/asset.jpt>g, are > useful on a site that is served through both HTTP and HTTPS to ensure that > assets are loaded using the same protocol. I can't find a clear W3C > standard for protocol relative URLs though they certainly have been part of > standard practice for years. > > Today, there is a clear recommendation that all sites be served using > HTTPS exclusively. The expense and hit for using HTTPS is considerably less > than it has been in the past. Your site will increasingly throw up warnings > in most web browsers if it is still using, or even allowing, HTTP. > > So you might consider simply specifying the CDN links using HTTPS as the > protocol. This will work fine if the page happens to be served over HTTP > and doesn't incur any more overhead serving those resources than a normal > HTTPS page load would. Possibly less since stray HTTP hits are less likely > to be in the cache. > > [fletcher] > > > On Oct 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Greg Raven <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > This is not a BBEdit problem. If you run "Check Links" on pages with the > //cdn links, you will note that BBEdit tells you those images cannot be > found. Frankly, I can't for the life of me imagine why you would want to > manage your assets this way. If the page points to the CDN version, then so > should your preview. Otherwise, you could have an image on your local > machine but not on the CDN, it would preview fine locally but the image > would not appear in the published site. Wish you'd been more clear in the > beginning; that's why I asked for clarification. > > On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 6:02:48 AM UTC-7, Fabrizio Ferrari wrote: >> >> Oh yes, sure, if I add "https:" it works fine because it is going to grab >> the image over the network to the server, but I was wondering if there is a >> way to use the local images without altering the html code by creating a >> simlink somewhere on my system? >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 2:06:39 PM UTC-7, Greg Raven wrote: >>> >>> Have you tried putting "http:" or "https:" in front of your external >>> links? It's possible that BBEdit does not interpret external links in the >>> format you are using. >>> >>> On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 7:27:15 AM UTC-7, Fabrizio Ferrari >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I am sorry I wanst' clear. >>>> >>>> I am talking about image references, with markup like this: >>>> >>>> <img height="267" width="976" src="// >>>> cdn4.virtualsheetmusic.com/images/newdesign/gallery/imageSlideBIG/Halloween_Sheet_Music_4_BIG.png >>>> "alt="Halloween Sheet Music Collections" class="expimgbanners >>>> hideRESP558"> >>>> >>>> >>>> How can I have that image showing in the BBEdit Preview window? I have >>>> that image file locally inside a folder on my computer, so I guess there >>>> is >>>> a way to create a simlink somewhere to have the source: >>>> >>>> // >>>> cdn4.virtualsheetmusic.com/images/newdesign/gallery/imageSlideBIG/Halloween_Sheet_Music_4_BIG.png >>>> >>>> loading the local image correctly. >>>> >>>> I have no problems to load images like this for example: >>>> >>>> >>>> <img height="267" width="976" src= >>>> "/images/newdesign/gallery/imageSlideBIG/Halloween_Sheet_Music_4_BIG.png" >>>> alt="Halloween Sheet Music Collections"class="expimgbanners >>>> hideRESP558"> >>>> >>>> I just created a simlink to the /images/ directory on my computer root >>>> directory and made the trick. But any //cdn4.virtualsheetmusic.com >>>> reference >>>> brings to nowhere. Of course, I could just replace that with: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://cdn4.virtualsheetmusic.com/images/newdesign/gallery/imageSlideBIG/Halloween_Sheet_Music_4_BIG.png >>>> >>>> And let load the page from the web, but I am just wondering if there is >>>> a way to create a simlink somewhere on my local computer to have local >>>> images loaded instead. >>>> >>>> I hope this is clear. Thank you! >>>> >>>> Fab, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 5:00:44 AM UTC-7, Greg Raven wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm having difficulty understand what you are asking. Are you saying >>>>> you want BBEdit to preview something other than the HTML code on your >>>>> pages, or that you need a better way of managing your digital assets? >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:54:32 PM UTC-7, Fabrizio Ferrari >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello everyone. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am trying to get out most of the useful "Preview in BBEdit" >>>>>> feature, but I am stuck in solving a problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> The way I'd like to use that Preview feature is to display static >>>>>> HTML pages taken from my websites. All references to images like the >>>>>> following: >>>>>> >>>>>> /images/icons/icon.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> Have no problems to be displayed once I put a simlink in the root >>>>>> disk of my Mac (I am on Mac OS), but if I have references looking at >>>>>> images >>>>>> on our content delivery network like this one: >>>>>> >>>>>> //cdn.mywebsite.com/images/icons/icon.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I can't find a way to reference those locally. Any ideas? If you know >>>>>> how to do it, or you have a workaround, I'd really like to hear it! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance to anyone for any help. >>>>>> >>>>>> All the best, >>>>>> >>>>>> Fab. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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