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Can't pin this down on RSS Integrations


 

Hi guys, I sent this to Help but could not get an answer. [Moderator note:? this in reference to topic /g/Group_Help/topic/93970910?in Group_Help]

Old school early bird Y!G devotee (came here when Y!G finally went kaput) here with a question.? This has been an issue for a few years, but I've procrastinated.? But it bugs my OCD and I've run out of ideas.

I use RSS integration from my blog.? Everything works fine, posts go through - the emails are on the site and I get them via Gmail - EXCEPT that the images are broken both in Gmail, and a big white space where the image should be on .? (The images are cover images for each blog post)

The images show everywhere else.? on Feedly fine, and even when I do integrations successfully using Zapier for Facebook and Twitter, and the images are fine, which tells me it's not something on my end, i.e. with my feed.? ?

There appears to be an incompatibility somewhere.? I am on free.? Do I need to upgrade?

I was hoping to use Groups.io's built-in integrations feature rather than try to kludge together a Zapier solution with 's post by email feature- which is my last resort, I think I had trouble making that work before, and I'm out of free Zap slots anyway.?
Barring all that, I'll settle for plaintext emails which feels like a big compromise.

Also:

-Double checked image URLs in the original feed - they all work fine when i copy paste into a new window.

- I noticed when I opened the aforementioned blank white space in in a new tab, I got long Amazon CDN URL strings, I'm sure this?is expected though I do not use AWS


-Not sure if this is a clue but in viewing source, both on and in Gmail, I see "=" a lot breaking up image URLs which I believe are spacers

-I checked and do not have Hotlink protection on my site's Cloudflare CDN or Wordpress plugins, FWIW, AFAIK... and I made ssure my SEO plugin does not interfere with the feed, which I already determined shouldn't be the issue anyway.? I do not use security plugins.

-Gone through all my various image settings and made sure nothing was awry

Group: tranceam

Feed URL:

ANY guidance would be appreciated.? Hopefully it's not some weird setting buried somewhere with unintended consequences.

Cheers

Jeff


 

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 04:15 PM, Machinelf wrote:

There appears to be an incompatibility somewhere.? I am on free.? Do I need to upgrade?

Jeff -- That shouldn't matter.

-Not sure if this is a clue but in viewing source, both on and in Gmail, I see "=" a lot breaking up image URLs which I believe are spacers

I joined your group and used View Source from the More menu on a few of them. The = sign at the end of a line is a continuation character that instructs the browser to concatenate the lines.

Beyond that, there are several img tags containing src parameters that refer to files on tranceam.org. The height and width parameters seems to be honored but not the image source. Does this domain require any authentication (logging in, etc) to access these files? If so, that could be why they aren't being displayed.

Good luck,
Bruce?

Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual


 

>>?Does this domain require any authentication (logging in, etc) to access these files?

That was my initial thought, but? no authentication.? They also show up on Google Images and FB/Twitter when I syndicate there.

*Something* seems to be between groups.io and my host that is blocking access.

But thanks for your time and input, this clue might very well lead to something; I'll keep trying different solutions.


SBL webmaster
 

Bruce Bowman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 04:15 PM, Machinelf wrote:
-Not sure if this is a clue but in viewing source, both on groups.io
( ) and in Gmail, I see "=" a lot breaking up image
URLs which I believe are spacers
I joined your group and used View Source from the More menu on a few of
them. The = sign at the end of a line is a continuation character that
instructs the browser to concatenate the lines.
No, that isn't a browser feature at all. "=" at the end of a line is a feature
of quoted-printable encoding, which is normally used only in email. HTML
content in email should be completely decoded before passing it to a web
browser or display engine.

An email-to-web conversion should not include URLs that are broken up in
any way. Special characters in URLs embedded within HTML content are handled
a completely different way, called "URL encoding", based on %xx escapes.

-- Dave Tweed


 

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 04:42 PM, SBL webmaster wrote:
"=" at the end of a line is a feature
of quoted-printable encoding, which is normally used only in email
Considering that Groups.io is a group email service, it stands to reason (to me anyway) that they may show up in the source code of messages, as several here do.

Duane
--
Lots of detailed information can be found in the Owners Manual and Members Manual.


 

Mystery/Problem solved!? Apparently not all RSS readers and email services can parse a featured image to be within the item* in Wordpress's default RSS feed, so an small addon is in order.? I chose Send Images to RSS and it worked.

Mailchimp users run into this issue when syndicating a Wordpress blog as well.?

Leaving here if anyone runs into this problem.? Thanks for all your help in narrowing down the culprit!


 

Actually, just so I leave this topic clear, turns out after all was said and done the core problem was I had a cache plugin that lazy loaded RSS images - and that made for Broken Images in groups.io

I excluded the "wp-post-image" class in the cache plugin,?and was then able to remove the small aforementioned addon.