Mystery! Image not showing on Twitter card — but no error in validator

[dhoulb]

Hi everyone

We’re just implementing Twitter Cards on a blog for a client, but for some reason the image isn’t loading in.

Unless I’m being a complete idiot, we’ve done everything right? I’ve checked the twitter:image meta tag is there and is pointing to the right image.

Only thing I can think of is that the image is served on a different port than the site (don’t ask — previous developers). Is that a restriction? It doesn’t seem to be documented. Could it be a bug?

https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
https://www.brighthr.com/blog/does-valentines-day-have-to-be-a-headache
https://brighthr.com:8080/uploads/2109693110-10-02-2016-14-21-05.valentineblog2.jpeg

[andypiper]

I can’t make sense of why the image is not showing up, either - you have a robots.txt file which is valid on the domain where the image is hosted. I’m not aware of having a port number included being a restriction with card entity URLs, but I do know that you cannot use a dotted IP syntax in the URLs, so this could be a similar issue.

[dhoulb]

Weird right?

Yep, I checked the robots.txt on the 8008 port and the 80 port, and there aren’t any rules that would disallow the image.

Is there a way to find out for sure whether images hosted on weird ports are disallowed? Are cross-domain images allowed generally? I assume they must be because of the prevalence of CDNs.

[andypiper]

Yeah, I’ve seen cross-domain images working for others, that shouldn’t be the issue.

I’ll have to chat with our cards team to see if they are aware of a limitation here. It may not be a very quick response but I’ll see if there’s anything I can find out.

[dhoulb]

Appreciate that Andy, many thanks!

If we need to move them to the same port that’s doable. Just need to know.

[rchoi]

Possible to give that a shot and see if it addresses the issue? We have a troubleshooting guide here:

https://dev.twitter.com/cards/troubleshooting

We’ve dealt with ASNUM and other issues before, but none specifically calling out the issue you’re seeing.

[HallNeon]

Hello!

Can confirm it was the port that was the issue. We’re now serving the images from port 80 - the card validates properly and the image pulls through.

[andypiper]