The following image URL fails to upload via Link from the web:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/images/3336451.0007.104-00000002.gif
The URL doesn't contain spaces as described here.
Other URLs:
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Sign up to join this communityThe following image URL fails to upload via Link from the web:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/images/3336451.0007.104-00000002.gif
The URL doesn't contain spaces as described here.
Other URLs:
Got it, no bug after all and I'm amazed it took me so long to spot what's going on.
The images are not stored on umich.edu domain, but rather on a different domain.
When going to http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/images/3336451.0007.104-00000002.gif the server is sending a 302 header, with the new location:
Browsers of course can handle this properly, and so imgur.com itself, which check for such header, however Stack Exchange is using API provided by imgur, which does not check for such header.
You can try starting a feature request asking to support those cases, and until then just use the "real" URL of the images, e.g. http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/images/3336451.0007.104-00000002.gif which works fine.