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Re: Images failing to load

posted by darthShadow
STAFFMOD
on August 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM

Hi,

As a follow up to https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/65cc7217894ed6014726c832, on further digging, it seems like the "referer" header may be causing issues.

Trying this:

curl -L 'https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w440_and_h660_face/bL1mwXDnH5fCxqc4S2n40hoVyoe.jpg' -H 'referer: https://www.themoviedb.org/'

returns:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0"/><style>body{margin:0px;padding:0px;}iframe{width:100%;height:100%}</style><iframe src="http://www.airtel.in/court-orders/ " width="100%" height="100%" frameborder=0></iframe>

but this works fine:

curl -L 'https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w440_and_h660_face/bL1mwXDnH5fCxqc4S2n40hoVyoe.jpg'

returns (basically the expected image):

Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output <FILE>" to save to a file.

Is it possible the CDN itself may be caching invalid responses? And if so, can it be configured to skip those invalid responses?

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Reply by  darthShadow

STAFFMOD

on August 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM

CDN response for the first (with referer header):

< HTTP/2 200
< date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:53:50 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 262
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< server: BunnyCDN-CEN1-1045
< cdn-pullzone: 1885712
< cdn-uid: 29af4e0e-bcbd-4fcb-8635-74ddc38a1ebf
< cdn-requestcountrycode: IN
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< access-control-allow-headers: Server, x-goog-meta-frames, Content-Length, Content-Type, Range, X-Requested-With, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match
< access-control-expose-headers: Server, x-goog-meta-frames, Content-Length, Content-Type, Range, X-Requested-With, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match
< cache-control: public, max-age=31919000
< pragma: no-cache
< cdn-proxyver: 1.33
< cdn-requestpullsuccess: True
< cdn-requestpullcode: 200
< cdn-cachedat: 08/03/2025 16:44:55
< cdn-edgestorageid: 1045
< cdn-requestid: 8d3c317077b9073de49f167b01d9a7f3
< cdn-cache: HIT
< cdn-status: 200
< cdn-requesttime: 0

Notice the cdn-cache: HIT.

And for the second (without the referer header):

< HTTP/2 301
< date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:54:31 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 166
< location: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w440_and_h660_face/bL1mwXDnH5fCxqc4S2n40hoVyoe.jpg
< server: BunnyCDN-CEN1-1045
< cdn-pullzone: 1885712
< cdn-uid: 29af4e0e-bcbd-4fcb-8635-74ddc38a1ebf
< cdn-requestcountrycode: IN
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< access-control-allow-headers: Server, x-goog-meta-frames, Content-Length, Content-Type, Range, X-Requested-With, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match
< access-control-expose-headers: Server, x-goog-meta-frames, Content-Length, Content-Type, Range, X-Requested-With, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match
< cache-control: no-cache
< cdn-requestid: 06ec6a9ca0ef66dc4c814bd6422746e5
< cdn-requesttime: 0

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