Images not loading well

[Joerii]

Sorry if this has been posted about before. A search didnt reveal any prior threads.

I see a lot of images not loading in the altcoin section. Is this a known problem or is there perhaps some maintenance that needs to be done in the underbelly of the forum software ?

regards, J

[hilariousandco]

If the images are too large they won't show. Not sure if this is the problem or not.

[TheRealSteve]

No, seems to be an issue with the bitcointalk image proxifier - sometimes they load, other times they don't.. image size may still be a factor (as a bunch of thumbnails in one of my threads load just fine), but e.g. i.imgur.com/6I1u1XK.png isn't all that large (685x358@33.2kB)

[Joerii]

Actually I dont think size is an issue.

The tiny twitter logo won't load half of the time in the Hirocoin announcement.

[theymos]

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Image rules are:
- Must be less than 2.5 MB
- The entire transfer must take less than 3 seconds.
- The proxied server must not keep the connection open for "a long time" without transferring data.

[TheRealSteve]

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Well, as per the example:


( Which, of course, resulted in the following preview: http://imgur.com/4xn3TpM )

Edit: Error message from the web dev tools:
Path: https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6I1u1XK.png&t=538&c=RmGD7MXuH0mLtg
Status: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

[theymos]

That works fine for me. Is it broken for anyone else?

[TheRealSteve]

That works fine for me. Is it broken for anyone else?

That's the thing... it's intermittent.  For example, I clicked here from the notification e-mail - it was fine.  I refresh, it's broken. ( 16 refreshes later, still broken ... edit: and the very next refresh, working again ).

Edit 1: actually, I noticed that the thumbnails in my StickMiners thread also seem to either load, or not load.  Since that has quite a few, small, images in it, might be easier to test with.

Let me know if I can enable / check anything for more technical details.

That works fine for me. Is it broken for anyone else?

That's the thing... it's intermittent.  For example, I clicked here from the notification e-mail - it was fine.  I refresh, it's broken. ( 16 refreshes later, still broken ... edit: and the very next refresh, working again ).

Edit 2: actually, I noticed that the thumbnails in my StickMiners thread also seem to either load, or not load.  Since that has quite a few, small, images in it, might be easier to test with.

Let me know if I can enable / check anything for more technical details.

Edit 3: The headers sent for the images that won't load appear to be incomplete;

Code:

curl "https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http"%"3A"%"2F"%"2Fi.imgur.com"%"2Ffr2iTmZ.png&t=538&c=BTmeFwPxfdCa3Q"
-H "Accept: image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"
-H "Cache-Control: max-age=0"
-H "Referer: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464496.0"
-H "User-Agent: [chrome, win]"
--compressed

vs successful

Code:

curl "https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http"%"3A"%"2F"%"2Fi.imgur.com"%"2FnCUY82z.jpg&t=538&c=BZHFlACurOC-AQ"
-H "DNT: 1"
-H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch"
-H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8"
-H "User-Agent: chrome, win"
-H "Accept: image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"
-H "Referer: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464496.0"
-H "Cookie: __cfduid=[gibberish!]"
-H "Connection: keep-alive"
-H "Cache-Control: max-age=0"
--compressed

Will see what FireFox does.  Maybe Chrome's having a fit.

FireFox is fine.  Cleared Chrome's cookies, but that didn't help ( or made it worse, now no images load )
Will check if an addon is misbehaving.

Edit 4: Incognito window still has this problem.

Edit 5: old_chrome.exe also has the problem, so if it is a chrome issue, it's been there for a bit..

[deepceleron]

This kind of problem is usually due to the image being located on some overloaded shared hosting provider.

There is a company that is mostly under the radar, that has acquired many domain and web hosting companies and moved their customers to unresponsive crappy overloaded servers that often don't respond for many seconds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

[pbj sammich]

so if it is a chrome issue, it's been there for a bit..

I've been using Chrome for quite some time, but this just started for me as well over the last couple weeks. I didn't notice a Chrome updates lately, but wasn't really watching either.

Seems to just be hit or miss, sometimes they load sometimes not.

[theymos]

I did slightly change the way that the proxy works recently, but I don't know how the change could cause this problem.

[nahtnam]

I did slightly change the way that the proxy works recently, but I don't know how the change could cause this problem.

A lot of images arent loading properly. It was much better before!

EDIT: Around 90% of the images.

[cAPSLOCK]

Yes.  I have loaded this page 20 times with no luck:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg5902307#msg5902307

And for what it's worth look at what I am currently typing into:



Hopefully you can see it.  It's a broken jpeg for me.   I am getting a 502 for the image links.  Perhaps you are doing something now Theymos.

[deepceleron]

Proxy test.

This picture should load instantly, it's two colors and 243 bytes:


This is a bigger image, 353kB:


Same image, hosted on imgur.com:


This image loads in about 0.2 ms, is 1.4kB, but generated by php.


This image requires over a second, it gets data from a third-party web site:

[TheRealSteve]

Proxy test.

fwiw - none of those loaded here

Edit: woop - now they do.
Edit: yeah, no, now they don't.

It probably is a Chrome thing, due to it not sending the Cookie(s) for some of the images.  Haven't seen any bug reports on that, though.

[dotcom]

People have been complaining about this the last week or so:

ive been getting about 50/50 luck of images showing over the last few days. Theymos clearly doesnt put much effort into server upgrades for the site

Not sure it's Theymos' fault, nor that it's a server/hardware problem. It seemed to happen all at once, and the rest of the site loads decent.

Subject line says it all

Why have embedded photos stopped working on this site?

It probably is a Chrome thing, due to it not sending the Cookie(s) for some of the images.  Haven't seen any bug reports on that, though.

I use chrome and personally haven't had ANY problems viewing images. I also automatically block cookies.

[theymos]

I think that I figured it out. Chrome was creating so many connections that the server was temporarily thinking of you as an attacker and dropping your packets. Other browsers also do this sometimes, though not as much. I increased the limits for this. But really, browsers should not be creating 30+ connections to the same server...

[cAPSLOCK]

Proxy test.

All of those worked for me on first load.  This time.  lets see what happens again

Next load the last image didnt work.. but overall more seems to be working.

[nahtnam]

I think that I figured it out. Chrome was creating so many connections that the server was temporarily thinking of you as an attacker and dropping your packets. Other browsers also do this sometimes, though not as much. I increased the limits for this. But really, browsers should not be creating 30+ connections to the same server...

Thank you! This fixed it.

[cAPSLOCK]

I think that I figured it out. Chrome was creating so many connections that the server was temporarily thinking of you as an attacker and dropping your packets. Other browsers also do this sometimes, though not as much. I increased the limits for this. But really, browsers should not be creating 30+ connections to the same server...

Thanks for the fix...

Seems a discussion with devs was here:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/XUc4eFH98Ck