Images Imported by Reference from URL in FM Are Blank in RH

Documenting a web-based application in FM9, I was tempted to use FM's ability to import images by reference from a URL in order to show icons from the UI without having to make a local copy of the icon. Worked beautifully in FM, but when I generated my RH WebHelp, those images were not displayed. Instead, I got nice blank images in their place.
Is this just another break in the so-called "integration" between FM & RH? Or is there a way to make this work?

Are the graphics in an anchored graphics frame in FM? If they're not, then RH doesn't bring them in.
I had a head-scratcher today around this fact until I remembered reading the RH help file about what gets pulled into RH from FM & what gets ignored.
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