1. The sanitizer strips "data:", so we need to fix/make that configurable
2. Yes, we can make that configurable too

Cheers,
Dave

On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM Richard via user <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Dave --
>
> Thanks for your response!  Had a couple questions:
>
> 1.  On my 6.1.6 instance, I added "data:" (less the quotes) to the img-
> src directive but the images still don't display.  Is it enough to
> change that directive to get existing base64 images to display?
>
> 2.  Can your proposed 60k byte limit be configurable?  Many of our
> images are larger than that in base64.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>
> > I did not actually know that copy-and-paste image was a feature of
> > the
> > Summernote rich-text editor that we use in Roller.
> >
> > I think we can fix this by:
> > - Turning copy-and-pasted images into media file uploads at entry
> > save time
> > - Adding an option to allow inline images in posts, for the case
> > where
> > uploads are disabled
> >
> > Tracking this as https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-2184
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM Richard via user
> > <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Adding more observations.  The issue seems to be due to how the
> > > images
> > > were originally "pasted" into the Roller editor.  Based on the
> > > Roller
> > > editor's Code View </> button we can see that:
> > >
> > > Method 1.  The user drags an image from another browser window into
> > > the
> > > Roller editor.  This creates an embedded remote URL which works
> > > fine
> > > when the blog entry is published.
> > >
> > > Method 2.  The user drags an image located on the local desktop
> > > into
> > > the Roller editor.  This creates a base64 version of the image
> > > which
> > > does not render when published.
> > >
> > > When viewing the page source of the published blog entry using
> > > Method
> > > 2, the image reference/data is simply no longer there -- it's been
> > > stripped out.
> > >
> > > So one workaround would be to replace any base64 images with links
> > > but
> > > that's not ideal.  Is it possible that some of the latest security
> > > enhancements are preventing base64 images from being published?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2026-10-01 at 18:19 -0400, Richard via user wrote:
> > > > Hello --
> > > >
> > > > After an upgrade to 6.1.6, images that authors copy/pasted
> > > > directly
> > > > into the text of a blog entry (instead of embedding as a media
> > > > resource) no longer display.  Is this expected based on the
> > > > latest
> > > > changes and if so, is there any workaround?
> > > >
> > > > Images pasted in this way are still available when an author
> > > > edits
> > > > the
> > > > post.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Richard
> > >
>

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