Getting the URL of the original uncompressed category image

[JustJohn]

I'm trying to output the originally uploaded image in Smarty, i.e. not compressed, not resized, exactly the one that I uploaded for the category cover.

But I can't find a clean way to do that. This piece of code

{$link->getCatImageLink($category->link_rewrite, $category->id_image)|substr:0:-4}{$category.id}.jpg

works but it's too ugly.

So there are two options and I'm soliciting advice on those:

1. Some kind of variable that contains

https://mystore.com/img/c/CATEGORYID.jpg

2. If such a variable doesn't exist, a way to generate URL like so in Smarty

FullCategoryImageURL/CategoryID.jpg