ansaurus

Question

Broken images in PHP from Dropbox over https

Answer 1

A:

This works on my Firefox version 3.6, the image shows perfectly well:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My WebPage</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

  <img src="https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/l/EyvpAUN99vGCmWKqw-ywSYXY1L8dPhkloKA5i9I--NM" />

</BODY>
</HTML>

Sarfraz 2010-01-26 13:54:51

Is that the source of a PHP generated page? I can get it to work from a normal HTML page just not from a PHP generated one.

demoncodemonkey 2010-01-26 14:00:58

Answer 2

+1 A:

I'd recommend installing FireBug to see what the return response from the server is. You might find that DropBox is refusing to serve requests for images with referrals from files ending with certain extensions, e.g. .php.

This might explain the duplicate behaviour with the plain HTTP too.

David Grant 2010-01-26 14:16:42

I installed Firebug, and the command line output for the page gave this error: "NetworkError: 404 NOT FOUND - https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/l/EyvpAUN99vGCmWKqw-ywSYXY1L8dPhkloKA5i9I--NM". I don't know how to decipher the response headers to figure it out.

demoncodemonkey 2010-01-26 17:44:04

Perhaps you could supply the headers?

David Grant 2010-01-27 08:59:41

According to the creator of a Dropbox gallery plugin, "Dropbox don't allow to show photo with HTTP_REFERER different of dropbox.com". This sort of confirms your theory, so you get the points.

demoncodemonkey 2010-01-27 09:53:41

Answer 3

A:

Try this:

<?php
echo '<img src="https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/l/EyvpAUN99vGCmWKqw-ywSYXY1L8dPhkloKA5i9I--NM"&gt;';
echo '<img src="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif"&gt;';
exit;

If that works, it's because html attributes should be bounded by double quotes, not single quotes. Perhaps some browsers forgive that and some do not.

Scott Saunders 2010-01-26 14:38:35

If browsers are unforgiving of this error, why does the Google logo work?

David Grant 2010-01-26 14:44:37

Answer 4

A:

An obvious observation but does your def.php have the closing php tag? Your code example does not...

<?php
echo '<img src="https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/l/EyvpAUN99vGCmWKqw-ywSYXY1L8dPhkloKA5i9I--NM"&gt;';
echo '<img src="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif"&gt;';
exit;
?>

Edit: Saved the above as a html file, and I only see one image in Chrome... ALSO - Do you have the PHP module installed/associated with your web server?

ian_scho 2010-01-26 14:47:10

The output is still valid, however.

David Grant 2010-01-26 14:51:11

The PHP has been interpreted - see the output.

David Grant 2010-01-26 15:00:49

You don't need the closing tag in PHP. In fact, if you submit something to PEAR, your contribution will be rejected if you include the closing tag, as it's against the PEAR coding standards: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

R. Bemrose 2010-01-26 15:25:02

@R. Bemrose. Didn´t know that you don't need the closing php tag! Thanks.@David Grant. You're right.

ian_scho 2010-01-27 07:38:33

Answer 5

A:

Try 'view source' in both and compare the results.

symcbean 2010-01-26 15:15:01

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

Broken images in PHP from Dropbox over https

related questions