Why Are My Pictures Missing from Blogger? (or other sites!)

 You can find a multitude of flavors of this question floating around on the Internet.  There could be many reasons.  "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City, this is one of them!"

My ISP (or perhaps its equipment) is no longer happy with requests to access sites via HTTP.  Centurylink.net will not correctly handle an 

http://4theloveofwood.blogspot.com/

request, for example.  Oh, it will get you to the site, all right, but most of the formatting and all of the images will be deleted.  I have tolerated this situation for the past six months or so - but now it is bugging my wife, so something must be done.  I have reported the problem.

As far as I know, use of http has not been deprecated on the Internet - it should still work.

If you are having this problem and notice that you are using an "http://" llink - I suppose that there are only a trillion or so of them floating around on the net, try inserting the little "s" after the "p"

You might be pleasantly surprised!

By the way, if you own a blog or a website and your users are having this problem, you can fix it for them by turning on an option that will upgrade your users' requests to https - provided you have the proper security certificate on the service that you are using.  (Blogger does, of course.)

Below are two screen grabs that show the difference:

    

Don't expect your ISP to accept this as his problem without a struggle.  Good luck.