# Full URL for image in text/plain emails

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-url-for-image-in-text-plain-emails/61198
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 18, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-url-for-image-in-text-plain-emails/61198 "2017-04-18T15:09:50Z")
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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-url-for-image-in-text-plain-emails/61198/3 "2017-04-18T21:37:01Z")

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I haven’t delved into the code, but as a user I’ve noticed various lack-of-full URL issues.

In my most recent Meta Digest mailing, I see full URLs in markdown format in the plain text part of the mail:

```plaintext
[:success:](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/1/b1be...) 
[image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/5/a/5af8...)

```

But I have seen ones like your example above (`<img src="//discourse-meta.s3...`) in the past. It may have to do with how the message was originally encoded, eg originally just a bare URL on a line versus in markdown.

The “[Download My Posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-download-my-posts-output-have-consistently-useful-inline-images/53828/1)” output uses the protocol less version here at Meta, but I’ve also seen lacking protocol and hostname (`<img src="/uploads/default/original/...`).

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