Resolved Issue with embedding images in other forums not showing up..

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I'm not sure when this stopped working, but for some reason, images I post in forums that are hosted here aren't showing up in the threads.

As an example, I have this image embedded in a forum just as the following:

This is the post with it, I have it in the post as a link as well since the image isn't loading like they usually do:
https://www.arrmaforum.com/threads/what-did-you-work-on-today.9619/post-299022

Did something change? Is there a bandwidth limit or something that has been reached? I do know that I have to use http vs https or it didn't work at all before. I tried https as well, but that doesn't work either.

 

[karrx10h]

I was able to see the embeded pic. Using Pale Moon v28.9.1.

 

[Anna]

I see the image perfectly fine on that site as well.

It could be due to browser settings and ssl though, the forum uses https and your image source is http, in some browser it could be set strict which would mean that the browser does not load any content not coming from a secure (https) source.

 

[garrettroyce]

Hotlinking images (that is, putting a picture on a website from another website) can be blocked by the source website and is subject to restrictions of the source website. Consider using a dedicated image host like https://imgur.com to host images because they are designed for this. Just download the original image and then upload it to imgur (or etc.)

 

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Hotlinking images (that is, putting a picture on a website from another website) can be blocked by the source website and is subject to restrictions of the source website. Consider using a dedicated image host like https://imgur.com to host images because they are designed for this. Just download the original image and then upload it to imgur (or etc.)

Yeah, that's fine if you have a handful of images... but I literally have 20 years of RC related images all in a folder/time structure that makes it easy to find for reference (60 folders, 3100 images). Which is why I was using a place like this as I can have structure and it's free to use.

Until recently, it was loading the images fine for me. It's now not showing for me in firefox and chrome, suppose I could try ie and edge. What's amusing is someone posted a comment in the thread and quoted my post. In the email I received, the image rendered fine (thunderbird email client).

Also kind of odd I'm not getting emails from here. I just logged in to see if anyone ran across this issue and there are responses...

Is there a way to make the images hosted here to work via https?

 

[garrettroyce]

Well, that could be problematic. Hopefully nothing happens to the original site!

You can embed an image over https on a non-https site, but not vice-versa. If you want your website to be served over HTTPS, you probably want to sign up for CloudFlare. They act as a proxy and serve your content over HTTPS, even though your site is only HTTP. So then you won't get mixed content errors when putting HTTP and HTTPS on the same page.

I see you're using a PHP script to do something with the images. Are you sure there's no issue there? Can you turn on error logging and check your logs?

 

[Anna]

Yeah, that's fine if you have a handful of images... but I literally have 20 years of RC related images all in a folder/time structure that makes it easy to find for reference (60 folders, 3100 images). Which is why I was using a place like this as I can have structure and it's free to use.

Until recently, it was loading the images fine for me. It's now not showing for me in firefox and chrome, suppose I could try ie and edge. What's amusing is someone posted a comment in the thread and quoted my post. In the email I received, the image rendered fine (thunderbird email client).

Also kind of odd I'm not getting emails from here. I just logged in to see if anyone ran across this issue and there are responses...

Is there a way to make the images hosted here to work via https?

Unless those images are in use on your own site they would fall under file hosting and is a violation of our Terms of Service.

This is an breach of terms that will lead to your account being suspended.

Dropbox as an example is free to use, you can share images from it, and you can keep the structure of your folders.

 

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Man... had no clue. Guess my issue is irrelevant now.