darkoshi | testing DW image problem

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This is a test. Images that I post, including ones in my old posts, no longer display right on Dreamwidth...
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I have submitted a support request.

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I am not Dreamwidth and I can't see the image either. I opened the 2nd image in a new tab in Firefox, trimmed the URL and got a "Secure Connection Failed" error. There is something wrong with your website certificate. Maybe it expired?

If you change the trimmed URL from https to http, the image should load. I have been wondering if that is part of the problem, that the original images are hosted on a non-https site. But it did used to work this way; it only stopped working sometime since the end of September.

That worked! Nice eclectic collection, stylized animal themed. ^_^ Good light too.

Anyway, my guess is that Dreamwidth is avoiding insecure connections. I wonder if there's a work-around.

In my posts, even though I enter the image location like in the trimmed HTTP URL, it gets changed to an HTTPS Dreamwidth URL. That's probably a good thing. I don't remember exactly but when Dreamwidth started using HTTPS URLs, I think my images got errors as it wasn't possible to load HTTP resources on an HTTPS page. Maybe that is why Dreamwidth started changing the URLs. I thought Dreamwidth was copying the images to a local store and serving them from there, but maybe they are only proxying them like mentioned in the solution to this StackExchange question.

I suppose if I had time, I could try to search the Dreamwidth source code to find out what exactly it does with those URLs, and if any of that code changed lately. So many things I could do if I had time. Eventually I'll need to do something about how I host my images too, so that they'll be HTTPS instead of HTTP.

That sounds vaguely familiar, like maybe it came up in a DW Maintenance post years ago... Ooo! Ooo! check out this comment! Does that help?

Ah, thank you! That confirms DW is or was using an image proxy. It doesn't explain why it stopped working, but that is good to know.

I think that confirms that asking Dreamwidth to fix their proxy was a good call. It just might take a while.

Fingers crossed they can make it work!

My support request (https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=50684) got a reply. The problem seems to be caused by certain web hosts blocking DW's proxy.

I don't plan to ask my web host about it as I want to leave them for other reasons anyway. I'll get around to that someday!