Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.

[aRealHumanBartender]

images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?

[Mark]

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@Photo O. wrote:

You have one very, very angry customer here!!

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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. 

[Rossorio]

Changing "https://www.dropbox.com" to "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com" on every single image should make them work again. I did so with a script for more than 500 audios a while ago and everything is back to normal.

[Здравко]

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@Mark wrote:

... any hosting applications have almost worked 'by accident' rather than intentional. ...

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Hm...🤔 Strange! In such a case there is some documentation, describing embedding, existing almost 'by accident' as seems. 😀

[Warden]

> 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”

[lisadbx · Accepted solution]

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]

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@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. 

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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.

[torvat-ITA]

Ok, an accident that worked very well. It is a legitimate action. Just like leaving Dropbox. It is OK...

[De L.1]

My www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/....?raw=1 urls seem to be working again for a few minutes now. Both images and PDF files.
Did Dropbox reverse the change?

[Здравко]

They started (HTML redirect fixed), but still not embeddable - CORS.

[De L.1]

@Здравко Interesting, I don't have any CORS issues with ?raw=1 urls. I tested JPG, MP4, MP3 and PDF file formats embedded directly into a page using iFrame inChrome, Edge and FireFox.
Perhaps you have a different use case?