exhibit banner images are served via https

[Michael Vogt]

Hi,

the exhibit banners from software-center-agent are served via https. E.g.:
    {
        "package_names": "braid",
        "banner_url": "https://software-center.ubuntu.com/site_media/exhibits/2011/10/braid.png",
        "html": "<div style=\"\r\n background-color: #000;\r\n width:1600px;\r\n height:200px;\r\n \">\r\n <div style=\"\r\n width:900px;\r\n height:200px;\r\n background: url('/site_media/exhibits/2011/10/braid.png') top left no-repeat;\"\r\n>\r\n <h1 style=\"visibility:hidden;\">Braid</h1>\r\n </div>\r\n</div>",
        "published": true,
        "date_created": "2011-10-12 12:53:58",
        "id": 2
    }

This causes issues on some installs where no https support for gio/glib is installed (yes, that is rather silly ;)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Software-center will need a recomends against gvfs-backends for this to work with https locations. That is installed by default on most machines, but missing on e.g. xubuntu (and kubuntu I assume).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Please let me know about the work it will be to do http for the images. If its too cumbersome I can add a recommends on s-c for the "gvfs-backends" package to ensure its working properly on all derivatives. But given that this is the only place where we need the gio https support it would be nice if it could be avoided.

[Michael Nelson (michael.nelson)]

The attached branch enables http for all uploaded media url's *except* packages (banners, icons, screeshots). But the fix working is also dependent on removing the redirection in the apache config, as per RT 49574.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

This is http on vps but staging will be a better test

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Yeap http on staging too