viewing images on Mike G’s renovation thread

[Malc2098]

Am I the only one having trouble opening Mike's images?

Is the imgur server having trouble?

 

[9fingers]

All Mike's photos ok here Malc using fruit powered phone, Safari and wifi.
Always possible that other platforms or Tapatalk etc might behave differently

 

[Malc2098]

I'm getting -

Safari can’t open the page “https://i.imgur.com/dEb3WwF.jpg” because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “i.imgur.com

 

[Rod]

I can see Mike’ photos using Tapatalk and mighty fine they look too.

Rod

 

[9fingers]

I'm getting -

Safari can’t open the page “https://i.imgur.com/dEb3WwF.jpg” because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “i.imgur.com

I've just had safari open that link ok here so I suspect there might be some sort of dns or other routing error from your part of the Wild West into
Internetland. :lol:
Bob

 

[TrimTheKing]

I'm getting -

Safari can’t open the page “https://i.imgur.com/dEb3WwF.jpg” because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “i.imgur.com

All fine here.

 

[Malc2098]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

 

[9fingers]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

Try turning off the wifi on the phone. That will connect you to the internet via different route and dns look up server.

Either that of just accept you have been singled out for persecution :lol:

Bob

 

[Malc2098]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

Try turning off the wifi on the phone. That will connect you to the internet via different route and dns look up server.

Either that of just accept you have been singled out for persecution :lol:

Bob

OK. That works when I turn off the mobile wifi! Yay. But the pictures are tiny. I want them on my huge HD screen! Why single me out??!!! :?: :?: :?:

 

[9fingers]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

Try turning off the wifi on the phone. That will connect you to the internet via different route and dns look up server.

Either that of just accept you have been singled out for persecution :lol:

Bob

OK. That works when I turn off the mobile wifi! Yay. But the pictures are tiny. I want them on my huge HD screen! Why single me out??!!! :?: :?: :?:

Your ISP has a problem methinks, going via mobile data will have bypassed them.

Bob

 

[MattS]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

Try turning off the wifi on the phone. That will connect you to the internet via different route and dns look up server.

Either that of just accept you have been singled out for persecution :lol:

Bob

No, me too - I’ve had this problem for ages, I now just turn off WiFi whenever I read Mike’s thread!

 

[9fingers]

Still no joy here. iPhone is also showing same problem.

How local can this problem get?

Try turning off the wifi on the phone. That will connect you to the internet via different route and dns look up server.

Either that of just accept you have been singled out for persecution :lol:

Bob

No, me too - I’ve had this problem for ages, I now just turn off WiFi whenever I read Mike’s thread!

Maybe you two can compare notes on your isp and platforms to try and get to the bottom this. Clearly your browsers are ok if they can connect to Imgur over 3/4G
Maybe try at a friends house using their wifi and see how you get on.
You could also change the dns server that your router connects to and say try the one that Google runs ( search for Google dns server addresses to find it).
If all else fails then armed with some detail you should be able to approach the help desk for your ISP or at each they have a forum where you can post the details of your problem.
Good luck
Bob

 

[AndyP]

Have you both done the obvious ie clear cache, history, update browser, switch browser off and on, reboot router, power down computer etc etc.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Mod’s can someone split this off please so as to not derail Mike’s thread. I’m not near my computer for a few days and it’s not so easy on Tapatalk.

Thanks

 

[AndyP]

Mod’s can someone split this off please so as to not derail Mike’s thread. I’m not near my computer for a few days and it’s not so easy on Tapatalk.

Thanks

Yes boss, straight away boss. Done boss

 

[TrimTheKing]

[emoji1787]

Good lad.

Take an extra lump of coal when you clock off.

 

[Malc2098]

My ISP is Vodafone Home Broadband.

Just been chatting online to a nice young man, or it could have been a nice young lady, I couldn't tell from their name, anyway, I was advised to change the primary DNS settings to 8888 and the secondary to 8844 and it seems to have worked.

I don't know what that means, but that was the Vodafone workaround.

 

[TrimTheKing]

8.8.8.8 is Google’s dns server, which means that Vodafone effectively don’t know what the issue is with theirs, can’t be ar$ed looking and just got you to use that.

Either way you’re back!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

 

[RogerS]

My ISP is Vodafone Home Broadband.

Just been chatting online to a nice young man, or it could have been a nice young lady, I couldn't tell from their name, anyway, I was advised to change the primary DNS settings to 8888 and the secondary to 8844 and it seems to have worked.

I don't know what that means, but that was the Vodafone workaround.

Ditch Vodafone and get Zen.

 

[MattS]

My ISP is Vodafone Home Broadband.

Just been chatting online to a nice young man, or it could have been a nice young lady, I couldn't tell from their name, anyway, I was advised to change the primary DNS settings to 8888 and the secondary to 8844 and it seems to have worked.

I don't know what that means, but that was the Vodafone workaround.

I’m on Vodafone as well, there’s the issue then!

 

[9fingers]

Happy that you guys are on the way to getting this sorted now
Bob

 

[Malc2098]

I'm also missing Bob's spray-can gif as well now, so it looks like VF is banning photobucket, too..

 

[RogerS]

I'm also missing Bob's spray-can gif as well now, so it looks like VF is banning photobucket, too..

So am I but I'm not with Vodafone. Think it's a separate issue.

 

[TrimTheKing]

That will be the same issue as before where photobucket have cottoned on to the free use I would imagine.

 

[RogerS]

Dunno...I copied the link from Bob's avatar, bunged it in the browser. Came up OK. Righthand side is a list of Photo Hosting links. I chose this one and bingo...works OK

 

[RogerS]

In passing, I noticed that when I selected one of the link options and clicked, the button changed to 'copied' and indeed it was in my clipboard which TBH I find a little disconcerting.

 

[9fingers]

In passing, I noticed that when I selected one of the link options and clicked, the button changed to 'copied' and indeed it was in my clipboard which TBH I find a little disconcerting.

What else would you have wanted to do at that stage?

I'm pretty certain that some other photo hosts do similar with posting links

Bob

 

[Mike G]

In passing, I noticed that when I selected one of the link options and clicked, the button changed to 'copied' and indeed it was in my clipboard which TBH I find a little disconcerting.

When posting 20+ photos in a thread, that is a really useful feature. One click rather than two.

 

[RogerS]

In passing, I noticed that when I selected one of the link options and clicked, the button changed to 'copied' and indeed it was in my clipboard which TBH I find a little disconcerting.

What else would you have wanted to do at that stage?

I'm pretty certain that some other photo hosts do similar with posting links

Bob

Clearly copy but I don't like the idea of an external site effectively doing a CTRL-C on my computer. What else is it going to do ?

 

[9fingers]

In passing, I noticed that when I selected one of the link options and clicked, the button changed to 'copied' and indeed it was in my clipboard which TBH I find a little disconcerting.

What else would you have wanted to do at that stage?

I'm pretty certain that some other photo hosts do similar with posting links

Bob

Clearly copy but I don't like the idea of an external site effectively doing a CTRL-C on my computer. What else is it going to do ?

Ok but nearly every website will be doing a lot more than a Ctrl C on your computer!

Bob

 

[RogerS]

....

What else would you have wanted to do at that stage?

I'm pretty certain that some other photo hosts do similar with posting links

Bob

Clearly copy but I don't like the idea of an external site effectively doing a CTRL-C on my computer. What else is it going to do ?

Ok but nearly every website will be doing a lot more than a Ctrl C on your computer!

Bob

I'll get me foil hat :lol:

 

[MattS]

Interestingly the latest photos Mike has loaded are all visible, not made any changes.

 

[DaveL]

Interestingly the latest photos Mike has loaded are all visible, not made any changes.

If you scroll back up the thread, I would think all of the pictures will be displayed.
The problem was not in your system but that of your ISP, they have sorted it out so now you can see the pictures.
In simple words, they have an address book that is used to look up where the pictures are stored, it had a missing or incorrect entry which has now been put right. The technical term is the DNS lookup was broken.