Dropbox image hotlinking no longer working

[OneAnswer]

Hello.

Just found a thread on MacRumors about MTS files and one answer contained some images hosted on DropBox, which were censored out.

Here is an example:

Is the problem on the DropBox side or on MacRumors side?

It seems the "*****" is the censored part, though five stars show for four characters.

Aha, it is "X"dot"CO", I guess the X is for eXperimental and CO is for Come On?

 

[maflynn]

Yes, it looks like its getting caught in the censor filter. I'll bring this up in the back rooms for the admins can see it (if they don't see this thread.)

 

[OneAnswer]

Yes, it looks like its getting caught in the censor filter. I'll bring this up in the back rooms for the admins can see it (if they don't see this thread.)

Thank you.

 

[maflynn]

You should be all set now, dropbox.com is no longer getting caught in the profanity filter.

 

[OneAnswer]

You should be all set now, dropbox.com is no longer getting caught in the profanity filter.

Thanks.

Let's see if this works now:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1iassuualy9phjy/PhotoExample.jpg?dl=0

Hmm, stupid new Dropbox?

I can open the little blue box by right clicking to open the image in a new tab or window and it shows me the image, but I still get the blue box with the question inside of it when using the IMG tag.

 

[sjinsjca]

I'm also not getting the pictures in the thread here, and I also have success when I cmd-click the little blue question-mark boxes to open the photo in another tab.

 

[S.B.G]

Dropbox image test:

 

[D.T.]

I wasn’t 100% sure that internal view original link was secure so pulled it

The bottom line though, the <link>.jpg isn’t really a JPG, it’s a service endpoint that generates markup with the image, that’s what’s breaking.

 

[arn]

you can embed the download link, but Dropbox cuts off things that get downloaded too much.

I embeded this url and it worked, but if I left it, I would guess it would stop working.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1iassuualy9phjy/PhotoExample.jpg?dl=1

 

[D.T.]

you can embed the download link, but Dropbox cuts off things that get downloaded too much.

I embeded this url and it worked, but if I left it, I would guess it would stop working.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1iassuualy9phjy/PhotoExample.jpg?dl=1

Yeah, did it above as well. The dl=1 param that forces a download doesn’t generate the additional markup that basically munges up the {IMG} tags, but I wasn’t aware they had a bandwidth limitation!

I had an internal view link posted that’s probably not bandwidth monitored but like I mentioned, I don’t believe it’s for external use (which is DB provides a specific public interface).