http:// image links auto-conversion to https:// ?

[Wee Gee]

We have embedded images in Jira Description fields:

!http://**removed.domain**/polarion/icons/default/enums/type_green_spec.png!

They are shown as broken image in Jira.
When I open this link in a separate browser tab, it works.
I read in a different issue here that they are automatically converted to https, and therefore can't be resolved.

Can we fix this issue somehow in our configuration?
Or does Atlassian plan to fix this eventually?

The server which provides the image can't easily be switched to https.

We use Jira v8.22.6

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

That sounds like your servers are not serving things up correctly, they're doing some form of redirect to https which cannot be followed by a simple embedded url.

They should be doing this, it's the right thing to do - you should not be using HTTP for any system that has any form of write (Polarian allows write access, so should never be run on HTTP)

You need to correct these URLs to use HTTPS, as that's where the images really are.

[Wee Gee]

The Polarion server really uses HTTP to deliver the images - if I enter that URL

http://**removed.domain**/polarion/icons/default/enums/type_green_spec.png

in a new browser tab, I can see the image. 

In the text view of the description field I use 

!http://**removed.domain**/polarion/icons/default/enums/type_green_spec.png!

to embed it, it is somehow converted to 

!https://**removed.domain**/polarion/icons/default/enums/type_green_spec.png!

during rendering the Jira web page, for example after switching back to Visual view and checking the link to the image it tries to load.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Your Polarian server is configured to redirect, which won't work with remote images.

You should have your Polarian server set up to work over https only (with a rewrite for http access), and you should be using https:// links for your embedded images.