Outlook web client html email images and ImageProx

Question

I'm having a problem with images in html emails in Outlook web client.

When a you put a image like this:

<img src="http://www.nortpalet.com/newsletter/green_btn.png"</a>

Outlook change the src for:

https://dub112.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=Gff8%2btl0q5SE4gsUVuSNwElf3c8f0rsyViXwF0k6Sy8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nortpalet.com%2fnewsletter%2fgreen_btn.png

and the browser can't find any image in this url.

Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I faced the same problem. Changing http in https made the image appear correctly.

Answer 2

You can check here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx Outlook doesn't support some css attributes.

Answer 3

Accidentally we discovered that proxifying on Microsoft's mail services applies only for HTTP images, not for HTTPS ones. So if you have HTTPS endpoint just use it prior HTTP one for images.

Why do that for HTTP? I don't know but maybe to get rid of secure notifications on having HTTP content on HTTPS page.