Pictures "corrupt" can't load in web browser.

[cjc343]

I have my home computer set up as a mini-webserver, which I mostly use for sharing pictures and other files with people, however, recently, I have been unable to serve pictures over a certain size.

Pictures will load to a point, but then they will stop loading and I will get an error in Console.log and system.log:

/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: Corrupt JPEG data: 2 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment

I know that the pictures are not corrupt because:

1. They worked fine a month ago
2. I can open them in any picture editor/viewer without problems
3. It happens to all my pictures above a certain (unknown) size

Here's a link to one picture: http://cjc343.no-ip.com/IMG_0001.JPG

Everyone who I've had try to load it in any browser cannot load it past the very first part. I have absolutely no clue what's going on.

I hope I provided enough details...

 

[Counterfit]

Well, I just tried and downloaded 64kB. Do you have an uncorrupted copy you can replace it with?

 

[mnkeybsness]

if you can open them with another program like you said, you may want to resave and make backups NOW!

 

[cjc343]

The point is, it ISN'T corrupted, and I have tried resaving pictures. There is nothing wrong with the pictures themselves, and my first thought was that it was Apache (2.0.52) but I don't see how that could be the problem.

After a little more testing, they load fine when I use localhost as the address, but not when I use the no-ip address.

 

[jaseone]

I'm guessing it is something with no-ip then, what happens if you try to access the pictures via the IP address and port (if you are using no-ip to forward to a port other than port 80)?

 

[cjc343]

I'm guessing it is something with no-ip then, what happens if you try to access the pictures via the IP address and port (if you are using no-ip to forward to a port other than port 80)?

The problem still persists when I use the IP address... good thinking though, I was hoping beyond hope that you'd be right...

 

[jaseone]

Anything of interest in your logs /var/log/httpd/*?

 

[cjc343]

Nope, but then, I save my logs to a different location

Entry in my custom logs when a photo is accessed:

Time: [07/Nov/2005:18:47:04 -0800]
IP: 66.245.5.34 (My IP...)
Request: "GET /IMG_0001.JPG HTTP/1.1"
Final Status: 200 (No errors...)
Bytes Sent: 1525852
Referer: "-"
User Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5"
Time in Seconds/microseconds: 0/1335

No message in my error log...

 

[jaseone]

Looks like Apache is serving the whole file but either your ISP or your connection to your ISP is preventing you from serving anything greater than 45kb, who is your ISP?

 

[cjc343]

Earthlink's my ISP... I can't find anything in the EULA about serving files... but I've had lots of problems with them that they ignore/blame on someone else...

 

[jaseone]

Well that is where I would place the blame... Why not use somehere like Flickr or your own hosting to store and serve photos from?

 

[Counterfit]

I'm guessing it is something with no-ip then, what happens if you try to access the pictures via the IP address and port (if you are using no-ip to forward to a port other than port 80)?

No-IP is only a DNS service, so you don't actually get data through their servers.

 

[cjc343]

It was nice being able to just copy pictures to a different folder to have them online.. but I guess for now I can just use online picture hosting services...