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Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.
images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working.
My www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/....?raw=1 urls seem to be working again for a few minutes now. Both images and PDF files.
Did Dropbox reverse the change?
They started (HTML redirect fixed), but still not embeddable - CORS.
Здравко Interesting, I don't have any CORS issues with ?raw=1 urls. I tested JPG, MP4, MP3 and PDF file formats embedded directly into a page using iFrame inChrome, Edge and FireFox.
Perhaps you have a different use case?I just checked and there is still no any CORS related header declaration in the response! Such a link CANNOT be embedded without such a declaration - only can be fetched alone.
On try to embed something:
lisadbxDropbox Engineer
Hmm I am able to embed with both raw=1 and https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com
We reverted the breaking change that was rolled out around 5/3, and I don't think there are any CORS related changes recently.
Perhaps you have a new browser setting?
Another know issue that prevents direct download is if the link is not public.
Confirming that new shared images using RAW=1 are working for me in a public message forum. I haven't checked yet if older images are working.
Hopefully, this means they fixed the problem and that this wasn't an intentional policy change.
Okay, back to waiting and seeing now. 😺
Update: I checked older images in the forum, and they seem to be displaying correctly, too.
Looks like the older ones are working for me as well again.
