I've got image tags that look like this:

<img src=/path/to/my/image.jpg />

But when I access the src bit using jQuery, jQuery gives me back:

http://example.com/path/to/my/image.jpg

This is causing problems in some comparisons I'm doing. I don't want to change my image paths to use absolute URLs.

Any ideas as to how I can either get the absolute URL from the image path (this might not be as simple as concatenating the domain - since the URLs may occasionally be absolute), or get the path I provided in the HTML? Either way I need them to match up.

Edit per comment from activa

There's not really a lot of jQuery code to post, I'm using the cycle plugin, and in the onbefore function, I'm just calling next.src. My jQuery and JavaScript foo isn't sufficient to really understand what the cycle plugin is doing to generate next - I think it's the DOM element for the next image being cycled in, if you're familiar with what cycle does.

My image tag is actually this:

<img src=/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/6927d406810ee9750a754606dcb61d28.jpg alt= class=landscape slideshow-image-1 />

and in my onbefore function this code:

alert(next.src);

results in an alert with:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/site_media/photologue/photos/cache/6927d406810ee9750a754606dcb61d28.jpg