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Are you going to fix them?
I think there is a bug involving the image proxy system and the redirect. You are linking to an attachment using the old URL. This is being redirected to the new URL but the image proxy might be messing it up. I'll have to talk to the devs.ghwellsjr said:What's interesting is that if you click on the link in the previous post, you won't see the images but if you then click on the Quote button, you will see the images correctly in the reply window.
I fixed it for you. If you edit the post and switch to bbcode editor you'll see your linking the images to the old attachment URL. You need to reinsert them and the system will use the new attachment URL.ghwellsjr said:How hard can this be to fix?
ghwellsjr said:This problem persists for all posts. I have uploaded hundreds of diagrams.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear.Borek said:Be sure we want all these images to display correctly :)
It's been 10 days now, how far up on the 2do list has this problem gotten?Borek said:Looks that the differences between the old system and new system somehow break the way old attachments are displayed, and it is not only a problem with your posts. That means it may require a forum-wide changes - please wait a few days as Greag is working through the 2do list. Be sure we want all these images to display correctly :)
The problem is that we are using SSL, because we are using SSL we have to use a image proxy. At the moment the image proxy will only cache publicly viewable images. Because the images in your posts were added via an image tag using the private attachment url, they are not publicly accessible. I am still trying to work on a reasonable solution.ghwellsjr said:I don't see why this problem is taking so long to get fixed.
I am assuming the edit window doesn't engage the image proxy. What doesn't make any sense to you?ghwellsjr said:If the images display correctly in the edit window, why can't they be displayed correctly in the post? It doesn't make any sense to me.
The purpose of the image proxy is that because we are using SSL, everything loaded on a page within our domain must come from a secure location as well. Most image hosts are not secure. If you load insecure elements to a supposedly secure website you'll receive browser warnings. The image proxy caches the image on our server from which it will now load from. It must come from a publicly accessible location. The attachment system is not public.ghwellsjr said:Why can't your developers look at how the edit window correctly displays the images and do the same thing in the post?
It's secure, but it's not publicghwellsjr said:Are you saying that your own image host is insecure?
That is using the attachment system. Once you use the image bbcode tag it invokes the image proxy system.ghwellsjr said:Why do you permit the thumbnail of an image to be displayed at the bottom of the post but not the image?
Why can't a similar thing be done with the full-size images?Greg Bernhardt said:That is using the attachment system. Once you use the image bbcode tag it invokes the image proxy system.
ghwellsjr said:Why do you permit the thumbnail of an image to be displayed at the bottom of the post but not the image?
Greg Bernhardt said:That is using the attachment system. Once you use the image bbcode tag it invokes the image proxy system.
If I'm following all of Greg's previous replies, the reasons are:ghwellsjr said:Why can't a similar thing be done with the full-size images?
Do what similar thing? The proxy is a public system. The attachment system is private. You can't blend the two together. You can see the images in the edit window because you are logged in. The attachment system uses your private permissions. The proxy does not. The image must be publicly accessible.ghwellsjr said:Why can't a similar thing be done with the full-size images?
I have looked into this but it's near impossible because the attachment links are dynamically rewritten. I can't just do a regular expression to translate.TumblingDice said:translate all of the original URLS of the images to the new ones
I looked and most of those are straight broken images which don't exist on the external servers any longer.TumblingDice said:I mention everyone else, as I recently discoved the PF Member photo thread, and there are many photos in a similar predicament. I'm certain this is important to Greg and all.
TumblingDice said:...translate all of the original URLS of the images to the new ones
I entertained this possibility, recalling how you phrased an earlier post. That was the reason for my "or impossible" reference to help on the user-friendly side. (Maybe I could have used a balloon analogy...Nah!)Greg Bernhardt said:I have looked into this but it's near impossible because the attachment links are dynamically rewritten. I can't just do a regular expression to translate.
I wasn't asking about the edit window, I was asking about the thumbnails.Greg Bernhardt said:Do what similar thing? The proxy is a public system. The attachment system is private. You can't blend the two together. You can see the images in the edit window because you are logged in. The attachment system uses your private permissions. The proxy does not. The image must be publicly accessible.ghwellsjr said:Why can't a similar thing be done with the full-size images?
Thumbnails are public. You seem to not be understanding that attachments are not public, they require permissions to access. The Image proxy by design needs a publicly accessible image to cache.ghwellsjr said:why can't whatever is done to display the thumbnail be done to display the full size image?
It is now set to 6. There is nothing to fix. Images must be hosted in a public area if your going to use the img tags.ghwellsjr said:Can you please change the maximum number of images per post from 5 back to 6 like the old software had?
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