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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.
I think this is a pretty poor business move on Dropbox's part by not even acknowledging what is going on. They obviously are aware of the issue, but can't be bothered to address their customer base?
This has sorted the problem for me.
That means ALL of my previous hyperlinks everywhere on the web, on posts that are not longer editable, are dead and can never be repaired. If this is really the case, then dam you Dropbox!! This is the second time some stupid and unnecessary change made by you code monkeys who just cannot resist tinkering with things that work perfectly well, have borked all my hyperlinks.
You have one very, very angry customer here!!
- Mark
Super User II
Photo O. wrote:
You have one very, very angry customer here!!
Please, please take this as a lesson to NOT use Dropbox for things its not intended for - i.e. a hosting service. It simply isnt designed for this and any hosting applications have almost worked 'by accident' rather than intentional. This is not the first, second or even third time this has happened and I can pretty much guarantee it will happen again.
Mark wrote:... any hosting applications have almost worked 'by accident' rather than intentional. ...
Hm...🤔 Strange! In such a case there is some documentation, describing embedding, existing almost 'by accident' as seems. 😀
- > Please, please take this as a lesson to NOT use Dropbox for things its not intended for - i.e. a hosting service. It simply isnt designed for this and any hosting applications have almost worked 'by accident' rather than intentional. <
Except that using raw=1 is documented. It's designed to serve just the file (via an HTTP 302 redirect). Currently that's broken because it's an HTML redirect.
https://help.dropbox.com/share/force-download
“To bypass the preview page and allow your browser to directly render your files, use raw=1 as a query parameter in your URL” - Ok, an accident that worked very well. It is a legitimate action. Just like leaving Dropbox. It is OK...
Dropbox states below they have rolled out a fix for the raw=1 link problem.
