Photobucket

[karzilla]

Thanks to everyone who let us know that Photobucket images were not loading properly on some pages. The problem seemed to be mostly limited to HTTPS requests; Dreamwidth maintains a list of known high-traffic image sites that support HTTPS, so that our secure content proxy service doesn't cache them unnecessarily. Unfortunately Photobucket seems to have recently changed their site configuration such that HTTPS requests aren't being served as expected, and we've now taken it out of our list of "proxy-exempt" sites.

If you continue to have issues, make sure you're not using HTTPS Photobucket links. It's a bit counterintuitive, but if you use HTTP instead, it will be automatically transformed on our end to an HTTPS link that uses p.dreamwidth.org.

Hope that clears everything up for now! Let us know if it doesn't...

Comments

[tinny]

Ah, and since LJ turned off https in December, it now falls in that category. :/

Thank you for the good explanation!

[denise]

Actually, LJ never offered HTTPS access to journals/Scrapbook images in the first place! (Probably because they didn't want to have to solve the mixed-content problem. Our solution is ... well, not hacky, it's actually nicely elegant, but it's a bit of a pain and requires increased bandwidth/disk space usage.) So we've always proxied images that were being loaded from people's Scrapbook accounts.