diff --git a/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/IHttpContext.java b/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/IHttpContext.java
index 97d3ddf36..e6fc5904c 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/IHttpContext.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/IHttpContext.java
@@ -63,5 +63,5 @@ public interface IHttpContext {
 	boolean isHttpContextNull();
 	boolean isHttpContextWeb();
 
-
+	String getContextPath();
 }
diff --git a/java/src/main/java/com/genexus/GxImageUtil.java b/java/src/main/java/com/genexus/GxImageUtil.java
index 297171ed8..73a23c39a 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/com/genexus/GxImageUtil.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/com/genexus/GxImageUtil.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp;
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 import java.io.*;
+import java.net.URL;
 
 import com.genexus.db.driver.ResourceAccessControlList;
 import com.genexus.util.GxFileInfoSourceType;
@@ -22,13 +23,19 @@ private static InputStream getInputStream(String filePathOrUrl) throws IOExcepti
 
 	private static BufferedImage createBufferedImageFromURI(String filePathOrUrl) throws IOException
 	{
-		try (InputStream is = getGXFile(filePathOrUrl).getStream()) {
+		IHttpContext httpContext = com.genexus.ModelContext.getModelContext().getHttpContext();
+		InputStream is = null;
+		try{
+			if (filePathOrUrl.toLowerCase().startsWith("http://") || filePathOrUrl.toLowerCase().startsWith("https://") ||
+				(httpContext.isHttpContextWeb() && filePathOrUrl.startsWith(httpContext.getContextPath())))
+				is = new URL(GXDbFile.pathToUrl( filePathOrUrl, httpContext)).openStream();
+			else
+				is = getGXFile(filePathOrUrl).getStream();
 			return ImageIO.read(is);
-		}
-		catch (IOException e) {
+		} catch (IOException e) {
 			log.error("Failed to read image stream: " + filePathOrUrl);
 			throw e;
-		}
+		} finally {is.close();}
 	}
 
 	private static GXFile getGXFile(String filePathOrUrl) {