How to analyze Imagehost Problems / Missing Thumbnails

halvar · November 7th, 2018, 05:51 PM

This thread will show things you can do to analyze or fix problems. There are many ways to do this depending on operating system, browser and experience.

Using Page Info with Firefox

Open the problem post in a new window. This narrows down the scope of the problem.

Right click to open the context menu
Select "Page Info"
A dialog opens
Switch to the "Media" tab
Select an entry pointing to an image host.
If the image could be loaded it is displayed below
If not, copy the URL
Open a new tab, paste the URL in the address bar and load ("Paste & Go")

Now you get either

a message from the image host like "image not found"
some kind of error from the image host
or a network error from the browser "no route to host" etc

What to do about that?
1) The image is probably gone forever. perhaps a dmca take-down
2) This is hopefully only a temporary problem. Try again later.
3) This could be a problem at your provider and is also hopefully only temporary. For example a while ago an image host changed its IP address.

These are the main things I can think of now, of course there could be other situations as well.

November 7th, 2018, 05:51 PM	#1
halvar Blocked! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: HH Posts: 1,963 Thanks: 115,040 Thanked 32,801 Times in 1,955 Posts	How to analyze Imagehost Problems / Missing Thumbnails This thread will show things you can do to analyze or fix problems. There are many ways to do this depending on operating system, browser and experience. Using Page Info with Firefox Open the problem post in a new window. This narrows down the scope of the problem. Right click to open the context menu Select "Page Info" A dialog opens Switch to the "Media" tab Select an entry pointing to an image host. If the image could be loaded it is displayed below If not, copy the URL Open a new tab, paste the URL in the address bar and load ("Paste & Go") Now you get either a message from the image host like "image not found" some kind of error from the image host or a network error from the browser "no route to host" etc What to do about that? 1) The image is probably gone forever. perhaps a dmca take-down 2) This is hopefully only a temporary problem. Try again later. 3) This could be a problem at your provider and is also hopefully only temporary. For example a while ago an image host changed its IP address. These are the main things I can think of now, of course there could be other situations as well.