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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.
It appears that what is being returned for a URL like removed has a Content-type of "text/html" instead of being the raw image data. It appears that the image is eventually delivered, but only after a ton of JS scripts and a 302 redirect.
This is also breaking Google Docs' PDF renderer, which is now displaying the source-text of an HTML page instead of the PDF file itself.
...or at least it was. It's now "refusing to connect."
Same problem here. Directly passing the link into the browser works. Rendering the files as part of another website does not.
Everything uploaded before the new link change renders fine. Every file that has the new link (with the "rlkey=" in the URL) breaks and cannot be rendered. Filetypes (jpg/png/mp3) is exactly the same. The only difference is the URL structure. Happens on any platform I use (gallery platforms with html displays/boxes, google docs and sheets, etc) as well as in any browser I tried with the latest versions and cache cleared (Firefox, Chrome, Opera).
- Mark
Super User II
It seems like something has actively changed on Dropbox as videos are not rendering either now (see here). However as Dropbox is NOT a hosting tool this is not unexpected - they have previously done similar to stop people using Dropbox as a web host, so, my guess is that this may be the same again.
