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?

[Stratoman]

All my photo links on the geocaching.com site have stopped working when using the /scl/ link.
the old /s/ links still work.
Tried dl=1 and raw=1
Tried on Chrome & Firefox.

[Jay]

Hi @Stratoman, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Could you try these steps to see if they help with your shared links?

Keep me posted!

[Msloane2]

Been using the raw=1 code at the end of Dropbox links to load images to a Wordpress site that has very limited local storage. All of the images uploaded with this link are no longer loading, but images from the web are still working fine.

[Jay]

Hi @Msloane2, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Just for clarification, when you say 'images from the web', do you mean when you open the shared link from outside of the Wordpress site?

This will help me to assist further!

[Msloane2]

The Wordpress feature to upload images via link is working fine, as copying an image link from elsewhere on the internet and using that to upload an image is working as normal. It is just the Dropbox links that aren’t.
Copying the link directly from Dropbox and going to the url from outside of Wordpress brings the image up without an issue.

[Jay]

It sounds like the link itself is working normally in that case. This would be an issue with how Wordpress is processing the image link. Have you tried contacting them directly regarding this matter?

[amensar]

Thanks Jay, I've had the same issue, the thing that worked for me is this: 

https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/<token>/path.jpg?rlkey=<token>&dl=0

• Replacing www with dl works exactly like a ?raw=1 link: this will directly render content for public links in the browser. It requires following an HTTP 302 redirect.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/<token>/path.jpg?rlkey=<token>&dl=0

• Works like a ?raw=1 link, but the application or browser will not need to follow an HTTP 302 redirect to access the content.

the other options are not functionning anymore, please what's the reason behind this strange behavior ?

[Greenlaw]

Hi,

I'm seeing a related problem. On an animation forum where I've shared hundreds of images for training and demonstration, I'm now seeing broken image links.

These images were shared from my Dropbox account using raw=1 in the link path, and this had worked perfectly for many years. The images broke sometime this morning.

I checked various browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge,) and the images shared with Dropbox appear broken in all of them.

I had wondered if this was temporary server issue on Dropbox's end, but it's been like this all day.

Thanks in advance for any assistance! 

[kelvinb]

iframe embed stopped working on a client's website. All of her videos are embedded by iframe and were fine until this morning. Now we just get www.dropbox.com refused to connect.

The links are still valid and videos are working in dropbox, just not where embedded. Has something changed or is there a problem with dropbox?

[kelvinb]

Did you get a fix? All of my iframe embedded videos using the raw=1 change in the link have stopped working on Wordpress too.