Images not showing up on the starting page

[mevionfamos]

Description

When visiting REF / ABN on a fresh browser, the images on the start page do not load after entering the credentials. This has been reported by multiple network operators as "broken".

Reproduction Steps

1. Clear the cache
2. Visit ABN
3. Enter credentials
4. Images are not displayed

Expected Behavior

The images should be displayed properly.

Additional Context

Test Environment

• Ref
• Abn
• Prod

[ptbrowne]

On ref & abn, this is due to the Basic authentication headers not being passed to Next = when Next fetches the images on the backend to optimize them, it gets blocked by the basic authentication middleware. Possible next steps:

• Disable nextjs optimisation for those images
• Disable middleware for those images

I would disable the middleware for those images.

This does not affect production since we do not have the basic authentication middleware.