In most of the posts on my client’s site, embedded images link to the actual image file. I’ve also enabled Web-App mode via WPTouch. In web-app mode images linked to their larger versions shouldn’t open; since Web-App mode has no back button, a user can follow a link to a image and become “stranded” there.
I’m also using W3 Total Cache, which appends the param string like “?9d7bd4″ to all my images. This makes sure that if you change your browser cache policies all users immediately see that change.
However, apparently the appended image string allows for the images to be clicked on and stranded. Interferes with whatever is stripping the image links.
Best way to avoid this:
Go to “Browser Cache.”
At the bottom, you have checked the following setting:
Prevent caching of objects after settings change
Whenever settings are changed, a new query string will be generated and appended to objects allowing the new policy to be applied.
This adds an appropriate string to the end of all images called through CDN or otherwise. Uncheck that box and purge/refresh the cache to see the difference.
Yay. Be stranded no more.
