All avatar photos broken when supplied by ballotpedia.org about askthem HOT 10 CLOSED

Cool - I can reach out to ballotpedia.org. Do we have a contact there?

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@davidmooreppf or @jpmckinney might, I don't.

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I've never looked at ballotpedia.

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Sorry just seeing this - try [email protected], I emailed w/ him back in June '11 when we were developing OG.

Feel free to 'cc' me. At the time he was in his email sig ::

Geoff Pallay
Project Director, State Legislatures
Ballotpedia
www.ballotpedia.org
www.lburnsinstitute.org

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Email sent. Awaiting response ...

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After getting your email with their response, I took it upon myself to see what whether they could use mod-rewrite to handle the pattern (rather than a redirect per se).

First thing to determine is whether they serve their site with Apache:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://ballotpedia.org

Looks like they do.

So what they need to do is put this in their vhost config in their Apache config:

RedirectMatch 301 /wiki/index.php/Images/(.*)\.jpg$ http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/images/c/c3/$1.jpg

However, looking at the pattern of the second part again, I see "c/c3" in the path. Does that part of the path change on depending on the elected official? That may screw up the redirect match OR our own handling if it comes to that.

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Ugh. According to this guy:

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/images/2/23/Max_Maxfield.jpg

what comes after "/wiki/images/" in the path may vary which we have no of knowing from the original URL.

So we can't do URL hacking on our end or get them to do a simple RedirectMatch on their end.

Seems we have to actually get the data correctly updated in OpenStates (since we periodically rebuild our data from OpenStates).

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It's worth experimenting with whether we can get the photos locally through OpenStates. See notes here:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/50147951

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Temporary patch: add a bit of custom logic to show placeholder image when the image path contains ballotpedia.org

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Worked around in other ways.

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