[vox-tech] Android and Photobucket

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Thu Feb 28 08:03:13 PST 2013


I'm having a bizarre and persistent problem with the web browser on my
Droid Charge.  It won't display images hosted by Photobucket.  For
example on this page:

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=424249

every single photo appears as a little blue rectangle with a question
mark in it.  They look fine on my PC.

It's a Verizon phone running Gingerbread (2.3.6).  Problem happens with
both the stock browser and the Dolphin browser.  I tried clearing the
browser cache and cookies and hard-rebooting the phone (removing the
battery) and changing the user agent.  Other image hosting sites seem to
be OK.  I don't think it's DNS because I can browse to
i205.photobucket.com (which then redirects to something else).  Happens
both with cellular internet access and with wi-fi.

Anyone heard of such a thing?  Any ideas?

Rod


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