<p>In RSS and Atom feeds, we need to supply the full url (i.e. with hostname) when constructing links to images. We use <code>image_path("foo.png", :host => SERVER_URL)</code> and <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1378" class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1378" data-id="191573128" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-permission-text="Issue title is private">#1378</a> makes this consistent.</p>
<p>However, there's an alternative: <code>image_url("foo.png")</code>, which also generates full urls. It seems to work to me. All of our <code>url_for(foo, :only_path => false)</code> work for generating urls for non-image paths, without needing SERVER_URL to be passed around.</p>
<p>Is there any reason that I haven't figured out to stick with <code>image_path</code> instead of <code>image_url</code>?</p>

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