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?

[joris666]

Hi....

A very strange behaviour....

When i made a weblink of an image in dropbox (right- click,add image in new tab) it's a different link than a collegue did.

Have a look at the attachment...

It's the same map,image....

Is this somewhere a setting in Dropbox that changes creating a weblink?

[Greenlaw]

No fix yet. All my shared images are still broken today.

[Mark]

There seems to have been a change to how links are created/shown over the past few days, yes. 

[Mark]

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@Greenlaw wrote:

No fix yet. All my shared images are still broken today.

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It seems to be an intentional change on shared links - based upon the fact that the links themselves work when not on a web page. I would not expect Dropbox to change this - they didnt last time. 

You would be better off looking at moving to, and using, a proper webhost.

[deco10]

Suddenly it doesn't work again.. What's going on Dropbox??

The new url doesnt work but the old way is working(i have to xml files, one with old sharing format and the other one that has the new sharing format..

old: https://www.dropbox.com/s/random_string/test.xml?raw=1

new: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/RANDOM_STRING/FILENAME.xml?rlkey=RANDOM_STRING_for_rlkey&raw=1

and i cannot create the old url format on the main xml(filename.xml) because its only giving me the new sharing format, or is it a way to create the "old"  way?

Tested both url:s in chrome and edge got this result:

old: https://www.dropbox.com/s/random_string/test.xml?raw=1

will redirct to a longer url

https://uc9d29123.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/inline/random_string/file#

Test with new sharing url gives the same result, it redirects but in the new redirected page its without the hastag after the text "file"..so something like this:

https://uc9d29123.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/inline/random_string/file

Im not sure if that`s the case but thats the only difference that i can notice..

Just to see if the content in filename.xml is OK i copied all the content from main xml into into the old shared format test.xml, this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/random_string/test.xml?raw=1

it works fine from here, therefor nothing wrong in the content in the filename.xml.

Also tried to create a new one xml, gives me of course the new format, same error. New shared format doesnt work..

@tahjdbx @lisadbx @Hannah could you please fix this?

[Mystro]

Yes there is a problem again for safari and google.  [img] raw=1 [/img] no longer auto renders pics any more.  We had no issue for months and now customers and forums wont auto render pics via Dropbox files????     We need to get this again worked out. 

[Greenlaw]

Hmm...this is unfortunate, if true.

I've been a long-time subscriber to Dropbox for many reasons, and this was one important one. I don't really want to shop around for another cloud storage service yet but I may have to consider doing so if this is the case.

Can anyone from Dropbox please verify or explain the reason the shared image links suddenly broke without warning yesterday? Thanks!

[dbwiddis]

Happened to me a week ago in some browsers but not others.  The redirect is the root cause. 

To fix, change the www at the start of the link to dl.

For example: www.dropbox…. becomes dl.dropbox…

[Rossorio]

I'll have to find an alternative, thank you so much ❤️

[Steve Raven]

Hi,

I'm running a couple of WordPress websites and using the FV Flowplayer plugin to show off my Dropbox videos.

I'm doing all of the usual edits, eg re-naming the end of the Dropbox file from dl=0 to raw=1 which was working fine up until a couple of days ago.

Since then, I get an error message: html5: Video not found: and regardless of how many times I refresh the websites' cache or indeed perform a 'Clear Browsing Data' on Chrome and Firefox (or a hard refresh with ctrl+f5), the error message remains.

How can the error message be fixed?

tia

Regards,

Steve Raven