Image Half Loading

[psylenced]

This is a really wierd issue, not really sure whether its server or browser related or what is causing it.

I host a gallery of about 4-5000 images.

Sometimes when i link to the images externally, they'll only half come up.. ie the top of the image shows but stalls before the end. I thought this was just an issue at my end, but now other users have reported the same problem (I think while viewing the gallery on the server).

The image software is gallery, but it's happened also if the .jpg is directly accessed as well.

[hotdog]

Have the images been through image:magick ? I've been having problems with it and can't get a straight answer from HG about if anything has been changed or updated (am sure gallery uses IM or GD), if not ignore this post

Sounds like the images are being corrupt somewhere, usually images display or they don't unless a third party is involved in it somehow.

[psylenced]

Yep, as its using gallery, all have been processed with image magik.

Here is an example:



And if you look in the source code there's nothing unusual about the tags:

<img style="width: 326px; height: 244px;" src="http://photos.psylenced.net/albums/20040626_Nonsenseland/aai.sized.jpg" border="0"><br>
<img style="width: 327px; height: 243px;" src="http://photos.psylenced.net/albums/20040425_Digital/ade.sized.jpg" border="0"><br>

[psylenced]

Another thing, its not like the image isnt fully there, because i reloaded the page a few times and they both came up correctly. Its like the download is stalling halfway through the image for some reason.

[hotdog]

change the style="width: 326px; height: 244px;" to just width="326" height="244" and remove the dots(.) from the filenames, replace them with underscroes (_) *image::magick can do this on upload), the extra dots and CSS could be your problem, some browsers hate stuff like this.

Not always a good idea using the full path to images either, if you change domains or get hotlinked it isn't a quick and easy edit to change.

Example, your image is called image.jpg and a forum has hotlinked it (posted it on their busy forum using full path - which uses your bandwidth), renaming the image to image1.jpg gives them a dead link, so you replace image.jpg with a 1x1 pixel image which is usually around 10 bytes or less which can actually weight less in error log entries. You just change the path on your site from image to image1 and your guests never notice the difference.

[psylenced]

Sorry maybe you have misunderstood:

photos.psylenced.net is my hostgator hosting account where i am using the gallery software (gallery.menalto.com) and the dots are inbuilt into the software.

The screenshot i provided was from a forum which is not hosted by me.

the style="width" occurs when you use the wysiwyg editor provided on some forums.

The issue isnt that it cant access the file, it's that its downloading the image and then freezing half way through downloading it.