HtmlHelper->image. Making using HtmlHelper image function to create a link to a external sites url

My problem is quite simple: How do I  create <img>-tags with an external url using cakephp's htmlhelper ? I have a site that hosts all static content, such as images and javascripts and I need to use it's address on my sites.

CASE

Lets assume my cake is running at http://www.mysite.com/caek/

My view code is like this (i'll seperate the variables for easier reading)

<code>

<?php

    $address="http://static.site.com/image.png"; //this variable will come from controller.

    echo $this->Html->image($address, array('alt' => 'alt text'));

?>

</code>

This will output something like this: <img src="caek/http://static.site.com/image.png" alt="alt text" /> .

While what I want is: <img src="http://static.site.com/image.png" alt="alt text" /> .

I could do this by echoing the right tags and such with the variables, but I'm in a state of mind that I want to solve the problem, instead of going around it.

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