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CoveUS
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
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
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- Rudi B Rasmussen5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
No - nothing. It is very frustrating. Dropbox needs to do the right thing here. It must be a piece of cake for them to redirect all "dropbox.com\*" requests to "dl.dropboxusercontent.com\*"
Please Dropbox, help us !!!
- mrfiledude5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
i'm satisfied with the answer provided re. changing to "dl.dropboxusercontent" from "www.dropbox"
i'm still miffed by no heads-up, but i think the solution is fine. you can do a find replace through your editor, or , as i did, programmatically, to provide for future entries (my catalog of media is managed via a Google sheet ).
- philski5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
yes changing the link like that works...
but it's really lame that you go to your local Dropbox, select a file, right click and get "Copy Dropbox Link" and unlike, you know the last 10 years!, they NOW give you a link that doesn't work... not to mention all them older busted MacOS / iOS pages.
rad. thx.
- hardreturn5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
it's also not feasible to edit hundreds of old links across multiple different sites
- mrfiledude5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
i can give you server-side or javascript code to replace all the image etc links.
- hardreturn5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I super appreciate that, however this is on various photography and specialty forums. this already happened years ago when they deprecated direct links and forced the raw=1 convention.
- kainwaffle5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Hope you don't mind I tag on, but if you can share it with me as well that'd be great. Been at the verge of ripping my hair out over the prospect of manually changing over 10,000 instances.
- kainwaffle5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
On a different note: I've spoken to a dev from another service I use to today (on an adjacent matter), and when I off-handedly mentioned this issue he noted that it probably has to do with Apple slowly discontinuing support on redirects (DB raw=1 links being redirected elements, so it seems to apply) due to security purposes and whatnot. Apparently it's been an inevitable consequence and mused that it's only a matter of time before everyone else follows suit...
I'm no programmer, so make of it what you will. I'm merely speculating. The point however seems to be that it might be time to find alternative solutions anyway, and might explain how painfully silent DB is on this issue - if they can't make apple bend on this, they have a lot of coding to do.
- Rudi B Rasmussen5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Do You think it can be done with .htaccess ?
That is change links from "www.dropbox.com" to "dl.dropboxusercontent.com"?
I have tried, but failed in my attempts.
- deco105 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Does anyone know if this works with google drive or One drive? Github? Other solution?
I tried but couldnt find the way..
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