Media Library to use Relative and not Absolute URL links

[lukecavanagh]

Any chance of trying to have the media library use relative instead of absolute url's. So the link when an image is inserted in a post or page just uses the upload url path, then the root url comes from the set site url in the options db table. So then you can change the site url, without all of the image links breaking and not having to run a find and replace on the site db.

[ocean90]

Using absolute URLs is a design decision, see ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/contribute/design-decisions/#absolute-versus-relative-urls.

[lukecavanagh]

@ocean90 I get that, but is ticket #17048 not worth looking at again.

[swissspidy]

#34609 was marked as a duplicate.

[swissspidy]

@lukecavanagh It would be more appropriate to continue discussion on #17048 instead of opening another ticket about the same thing.