Unable to view images on Hijiribe/Sonohara when Danbooru domain is blocked

[BrokenEagle]

From the Danbooru forum:

OniTea said:

Looks like after this fix thumbnails and images are forced to be from https://danbooru.donmai.us/ even if I'm currently on hijiribe\sonohara.
Is it possibly to revert this, since danbooru.donmai.us is blocked in my country, while hijiribe\sonohara not. (So I can enter the site now, but can't see any image at all).
VPN is always a way, but I'm trying to use it as less as possibly.

Apox said:

I second this, I would be really happy if you guys have solved this problem ASAP as well. Thanks.

[evazion]

Related to #3599.

[evazion]

We want to be able to set this base url something like this:

StorageManager::SFTP.new(host, base_url: "#{request.protocol}://#{request.host}/data")
StorageManager::SFTP.new(host, base_url: "#{root_url}/data") # alternatively

So that the base url uses the host and protocol from the current request. That way if you're on https://sonohara.donmai.us, the base url will be https://sonohara.donmai.us. Problem is we can't access the request object outside of controllers/views, unless we put it in a global somewhere.