When a website insert images as base64, tiny tiny RSS handle them as a path and get 404 error instead of showing the actual image.
Is it a known problem?
you’re right there’s no special handling for data: scheme, should be an easy fix if someone bothers to file a PR
otherwise i’ll make a note to take a look at this sometime later
that would be great, thanks !
(my own webserver has a lot of 404 logged from ttrss users, that’s how I saw this)
Is there a feed URL that you can share? I set up a test feed with a base64-encoded image and it seems to work as expected.
of course, here you go :
https://yeuxdelibad.net/Blog/feed.php
It contains 1x1 transparent gifs, supposed to be replaced by the browser via javascript as the reader scrolls, so you won’t “see” any images except the 1px ones.
Looks like a problem with the website’s feed generation. There is a yeuxdelibad.net - Blog prefix for the “data:” URIs. For example:
<img src="https://yeuxdelibad.net/Blog/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="ipv6 ready" title="ipv6 ready" border="0" data-echo="/Blog/img/15/button-ipv6-small.png" class="lazy-load">
You’re right, I am the one who must fix something now. Thanks.
where do you get this code?
In the generated RSS, I don’t have base64 : view-source:yeuxdelibad.net - Blog
i don’t see any base64 images in that feed atm
also if i remember correctly only urls starting with “/” are normalized so i don’t see why special handling for base64 should be needed in the first place
in fact there’s even an exception for feed: and such type urls in there
The example above was copied directly from the feed yesterday. It appears to have been replaced with:
<img src='/Blog/img/15/button-ipv6-small.png' alt='ipv6 ready' title='ipv6 ready' border='0' />
So I assume you, or someone else, made a change.
weird, I didn’t change anything 