: Bizarre image loading problem from apache2 Users have complained a few times about seeing a bizarre set of pink or green stripes on our webpage. At first I thought there were a rash of video

@Hamaas447

The first thing I noticed when I looked at your page in Firebug is that some of your images (specifically this one, which toomanyairmiles already posted a screenshot of, and this other one) are simply huge — the first one is 4.2 megabytes!

When I first loaded the page, the huge image was corrupted, more or less like in toomanyairmiles's screenshot. When I reloaded the image, it downloaded correctly. However, curiously, in both cases the image file I got was 4,362,346 bytes long; it's just that, in the broken version, after 3,903,489 bytes the correct image data stopped and was replaced by something else (which, alas, looked just like random bytes — or compressed JPEG image data — in a hex editor).

Anyway, I suspect that resaving those few huge images at a more reasonable size should at least make the problem occur much less frequently, even if it won't actually fix the underlying cause of the data corruption. As a bonus, your website will also load faster.

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@Murray432

It seems you're not the only one having such problems, look here and here, there are some suggestions on fixes in these threads - have you ruled these out already?

Are you in a multi web server environment? Could one of the servers in the pool have a corrupted copy of the image?

Interestingly it's not limited to the background image, and the corruption affects the downloaded image which suggests there might indeed be a problem with the file rather than the server - how are you saving the images?

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