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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?
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.
Good morning, I do agree with the statement that dropbox isn't a hosting platform. Then remove this https://help.dropbox.com/it-it/share/force-download page.
Really, if it is not intended to allow and manage rendering and download of contents (as a collaboration tool should do, on my personal point of view) then it is ok. I change platform and will not renew my subscription. i don't think Dropbox will care about it. But inform users that this is not allowed and remove pages that explain how to do this.
Have a nice day 🙂
torvat-ITA wrote:I do agree with the statement that dropbox isn't a hosting platform. 🙂
I don't agree with that statement. There is no difference between sharing something stored in Dropbox and serving something stored in Dropbox. Arguably, serving as raw=1 takes less processing.
The help page does say that "adding raw=1 to a URL will cause an HTTP redirect", and that could cause problems; but what it appears to be doing at the moment is not simply a 302 redirect (it does do that as well) but actually serving text/html content first. Where a recipient is expecting content-type: image/jpeg or content-type: application/pdf, serving content-type: text/html will cause problems. It's that behaviour which has changed.
