The JIRA activity stream is not showing thumbnails from Confluence, see attached screenshot.
I examined the URL of the links, and it appears JIRA/Confluence has added an additional / to the link, i.e. instead of https://confluence.mycompany.com/ we have https://confluence.mycompany.com// - notice // (added bold for emphasis):
https://confluence.mycompany.com//download/attachments/2359301/Mia-persona?version=1&modificationDate=1505378799593&api=v2
When I remove the additional /, Confluence shows the thumbnail, if I access the URL with "//" I get a java.lang.NullPointerException error
