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My images don't load on mobile
My images don't load on mobile when I visit my website that uses dropbox direct photo links. The desktop site works fine.
Hi all,
As you may have seen, this issue is now resolved and a fix was rolled out earlier this week 🎉
Let us know if you have any questions.
Emma
hardreturn wrote:oh ya, less than 24hrs. what the hell.
any idea why that link no longer works @Здравкo ?
nothing changed at all on my end
Hi hardreturn,
🤔 I should confess, have no idea what you are talking about. The correct raw link in your OP still works! I just opened it and everything is fine. What exactly doesn't work any longer for you? 🧐
About the post you are referring to in your last post, It's the same what I have posted above; just take a look! That's never changed and not something new. It sounds like you have embed already redirected link. Is this exact? If so, normally such a link become invalid some time later. Such a link is a temporary link! Use the actual raw link, not something else, for embedding, as I mentioned before. It still works; check. 🙂 That's it.
Of course, there are ways such a link be invalidated either explicitly by you or somebody with appropriate access or implicitly by some action invalidating pointing content. According the info you provided no one seems actual in the particular case. Everything points to wrong link embedded.
Hope this shed additional light.
deco10, It's clearly seen, your link is redirected temporary link! Something that I already explained. Why you are trying alternatives??? 🤷 Just use the actual link. 😉
Because my app on my smart tv can not use re-direct function. so when i point at ?raw=1 and i will get an redirect url my app on my smarttv wont open it. It worked fine in several years! but after this change fra 1 mars it wont anymore. If I use the redirect url it works fine but this is changing everyday which is not useful for me. So therefor if dropbox dont find a solution then we have to find another solution..thats why
deco10 wrote:Because my app on my smart tv can not use re-direct function. ...
Hi deco10,
I don't believe some device can't use redirect; this is very basic feature of HTTP protocol and is much older than both Dropbox and your TV. 😜 The redirection itself isn't the issue, definitely.
While we are talking for TVs, especially some older models, other issues could comes up. Is your TVs web engine supporting all recent HTML5 features? Dropbox step by step going to rely on them. If your TV supplier doesn't update your TVs firmware, restricted support could definitely be an issue! Yes, seems Dropbox doesn't take care for such cases. (i.e. doesn't back support for HTML4, for example) That's it. 🤷
well i hope you are thinking logically here..The TV and the app is the same and it has worked fine for several years! Where can the problem be then?
unless I alter the URL as in the previous post, safari will no longer display the image, and instead shows the blue [?]
embedded images that have worked for years now all display as broken images. something has changed.
Some good news at my end... I've managed to temporarily sort the problem, for now. I use Wordpress and a specific DropBox type plugin to link my files into my site. The developers for that plugin have very kindly and quickly come up with a patch to get round the issue, while we wait for DropBox and/or Apple to sort the main problem out. So images are now restored on my site which is a massive, massive relief! And a move to another CDN is postponed for the moment. But I'll be keeping an eye on this thread to see what happens as ideally a proper fix is need. Good luck with getting it sorted!
