Dynamic views disregard images for odd reasons
Daniel Jalkut <[email protected]>
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Forgive me, this is only tangentially related to the Blogger API per se, but because it relates to default behaviors of the Picasa API and how it's used in conjunction with Blogger's API, I thought I'd ask here to see if anybody has thoughts. I've noticed thanks to user feedback that some posts edited with my app, MarsEdit for the Mac, have their image contents ignored by Blogger's "Dynamic Views". For example, an image that appears regularly in the classic post view will not show up at all in Snapshot dynamic view. The distinction seems to be based on whether the image in the post is referenced by HTTPS vs. HTTP, and whether the image makes use of an "imgmax" paramater: 1. Images linked with HTTP always seem to work. 2. Images linked with HTTPS work as long as there is no ?imgmax parameter. 3. Images linked with HTTPS and have an ?imgmax parameter simply don't show up. For example, a new post created with this URL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L8QFnIPllF0/VoQtwNwQDHI/AAAAAAAABFU/Q5lkwnEwHj8/photo.JPG?imgmax=800 Will not be picked up by Google's dynamic views, but tweaking it to either: http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L8QFnIPllF0/VoQtwNwQDHI/AAAAAAAABFU/Q5lkwnEwHj8/photo.JPG?imgmax=800 or https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L8QFnIPllF0/VoQtwNwQDHI/AAAAAAAABFU/Q5lkwnEwHj8/photo.JPG Causes it to be picked up. The way this relates to the Blogger API is that as far as I know using Picasa is still the only officially supported way to add images to Blogger posts, and the image URLs come back by default with HTTPS scheme. In general, I assume that Google and Blogger promote using HTTPS whenever possible. So it's weird that the Dynamic Views for whatever reason discriminate on this basis. The imgmax stuff is a little fuzzier in my memory. Perhaps that is something that I should stop supplying with images, but I seems to recall it was necessary at some point in history. If anybody has advice about this or is willing to pass it along to appropriate developers on the Blogger backend, I'll appreciate that! Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blogger Developer Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bloggerdev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.