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aRealHumanBartender
Helpful | Level 6
1 year ago
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Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.

images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
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  • lisadbx's avatar
    lisadbx
    1 year ago

    We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working. 

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dbwiddis
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Happened to me a week ago in some browsers but not others.  The redirect is the root cause. 

 

To fix, change the www at the start of the link to dl.

 

For example: www.dropbox…. becomes dl.dropbox…

Mystro's avatar
Mystro
Helpful | Level 5
1 year ago

Yup adding the “dl” and removing the “www” worked.  Your a rock star👍

Wonder why this just started?? I will inform my staff of this change.

  • dbwiddis's avatar
    dbwiddis
    Explorer | Level 4
    1 year ago
    I’m not sure Dropbox changed anything this time, but the previous www links always redirected to the dl links.

    I suspect some browsers have started enforcing tighter security on https redirects.
    • lisadbx's avatar
      lisadbx
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      1 year ago

      We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working. 

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20
        1 year ago
        lisadbx wrote:

        We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working. 

        Hi lisadbx,

        Almost, but not exactly! You have fixed the HTML redirection, but the other addition is still there! What about CORS?! 😉

        Hope this will be fixed too.

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