HTMLArea is re-writing urls

[RobinSummerhill]

I've found a few problems when using the WYSIWYG HTMLArea control.

(My serendipity installation is in a subdirectory called 'serendipity' off my root)

If you enter a relative url in an <a> tag or <img> tag then a '/' is appended when you save it. If you enter a tag starting with 'serendipity'it is removed. e.g.:

<a href="uploads/test.jpg"> becomes <a href="/uploads/test.jpg">
<a href="/serendipity/uploads/test.jpg> becomes <a href="/uploads/test.jpg">

This means that adding images using the image browser results in a broken link.

My paths are set up correctly I think as everything else works ok (image upload, image management etc.)

Is the problem with my installation, HTMLArea, or S9Y?

Robin

[garvinhicking]

Please tell the version of s9y you're using.

[RobinSummerhill]

Serendipity 0.6-pl2

I downloaded it last Friday

[garvinhicking]

Serendipity 0.6-pl2

I downloaded it last Friday

Hm, okay. I guess you are using Internet Explorer? Because in Mozilla, it doesn't seem to be the case.

I remember once having corrected an issue with it, which caused some other troubles. I'll try to somehow find the time to correct this, but my schedule is a bit tight at the moment, so please stay tuned.

[RobinSummerhill]

Hm, okay. I guess you are using Internet Explorer? Because in Mozilla, it doesn't seem to be the case.

You're right. I've tried it with Netscape 7.1 and it works ok. Unfortunately the person I'm setting this up for uses Internet Explorer.

Robin

[garvinhicking]

Hi Robin!

I just updated s9y's CVS with this new code; search for it in your htmlarea/htmlarea.js file and use this function instead:

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HTMLArea.prototype.stripBaseURL = function(string) {
        var baseurl = this.config.baseURL;
        // strip to last directory in case baseurl points to a file
        baseurl = baseurl.replace(/[^\/]+$/, '');
        _baseurl = baseurl;
        var basere = new RegExp(baseurl);
        string = string.replace(basere, this.config.baseURL);

        // strip host-part of URL which is added by MSIE to links relative to s
        baseurl = baseurl.replace(/^(https?:\/\/[^\/]+)(.*)$/, '$1');
        basere = new RegExp(baseurl);
        return string.replace(basere, baseurl);
};

At least it works with all the variants I tried. It will now always convert a relative link to an absolute one, but this should make no problem. And the benefit is, that it finally works.

Regards,
Garvin.

[RobinSummerhill]

That works fine now.

Thanks!

[clear2go]

This resolved my issue. Great that it was posted so clearly!
/Mike.