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Download of PNG files sometimes don't work
If I click on "Download PNG" link, then the same page will be displayed. (the same page will be reloaded) Using Firefox 10.0.2.

For example there: http://yande.re/post/show/209217

In Internet Explorer 9.0.5 it works without any problems... Is Firefox currently not supported? Some problems after the switch to the new server?
Works fine for me on Firefox 10.0.2
Hmm... on another pc it works... what I see is when I click on the download link, then I will be redirected not to the same page. The new page is http://yande.re/post/show?md5=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

This mean the number of the post will be replaced to some md5 value. :-/
check that you're not blocking referrals
Ever since the move to yande.re, I find that the only way that works to download an image is to click on it in the browser. Anything that uses the link fails. If I copy and paste it into the browser, it fails. If I uses a download manager, it fails. If I use wget, it fails. It doesn't matter whether I use the version of the link which is URI-encoded or not. It always redirects to the image's page instead of downloading the image when I use the download URL. And this is really annoying, since I don't normally download the images with my browser directly.
this problem happens on post #209286 .. i can't open the original image, it always re-directs to http://yande.re/post/show?md5=13579c1dc2c71037b67a5a68025e6fd5
I've played with it a bit, and as admin2 said, the site appears to now require all images be clicked on from http://yande.re directly (no sub-domains), or at least pass the correct referrer. If you have referrals blocked, externally link, or paste links it won't work by default as it is now.

After playing around with artificially triggering the hotlink protection a few times, there does seem to be one strange (unintended?) behavior. At least with Firefox 10, once you get directed to one of those md5= link once because of a blocked or wrong referrer, all other image links will continue to be redirected to the md5= links even after you unblock referrals and start using the site normally again.

If you're positive you don't have referrals blocked and are clicking links directly from http://yande.re, then you may need to reset things by deleting the yande.re cookies and cache from Firefox. I've tested this a few times, and once those cookies and cache are deleted and you log back in, image links should work normally once again when clicked on from http://yande.re with normal referrals.
I also find that the old Danbooru Downloader 1.8 plugin for firefox no longer works for this site, just craps out an error: "Pic content is empty".

Guessing it is the plugins fault, can't handle the way things are setup here.
Cyberbeing said:
After playing around with artificially triggering the hotlink protection a few times, there does seem to be one strange (unintended?) behavior. At least with Firefox 10, once you get directed to one of those md5= link once because of a blocked or wrong referrer, all other image links will continue to be redirected to the md5= links even after you unblock referrals and start using the site normally again.
Seems like only FF10 is having that problem? We have been adjusting our backends lately. I'll double check our referral checking configs..

referral checking is the same as before the move
admin2 said:
referral checking is the same as before the move
Is it really the same?

Previously Working Referrers:
http://oreno.imouto.org
oreno.imouto.org
http://ayase.imouto.org
ayase.imouto.org
no-referrer

Currently Working Referrers:
http://yande.re

Currently Non-Working Referrers:
yande.re
http://ayase.yande.re
ayase.yande.re
no-referrer

Nothing wrong with making it more strict, but for whatever reason the redirects from http://ayase.yande.re to http://yande.re md5= must to be causing something funky to happen with the Firefox cache. I've never triggered hotlink protection on the previous domain before, so maybe this quirk always existed?

None the less, as long as Firefox users browse and download images from the site normally, nobody should ever run into this issue.
Well, whatever was changed (on purpose or otherwise), before the move, I could use wget and download managers such as KDE's kget to download images. Now, the only thing that works is clicking on the link directly.
It looks like wget works if I pass --referer=http://yande.re/ to it, but it worked before without passing any referer to it. And kget doesn't work regardless, since I can't pass it a referer (it being a GUI program). I don't know if other download managers are similarly negatively affected or not - though obviously FF10 is having issues based on the other poster's experience.
I've been having the same problem with Opera. Half the time I click on the link to download an image, I get redirected to the same page. I wrote a script to download pictures from here, and it wasn't able to download any after the site moved, but I fixed it by adding (Referer: "http://yande.re/") to the headers when it requests a page.
This is still happening to me with some images. For example the image on https://yande.re/post/show/192057 redirects to https://yande.re/post/show?md5=6bb26e9eb319ef815c5331a7abb8e255 using Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer, while other images work just fine without a referrer at all.