[Smush] "Failed parsing srcset attribute value since its w descriptor is invalid"

After activating Smush CDN I’m seeing errors saying “Failed parsing srcset attribute value since its w descriptor is invalid” in the console.

  • Mohammad Sharab
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    Hello Anastasiya,

    hope you are well and sorry to hear about the issue you encountered.

    After some research, I was able to temporary solve the issue by disabling “Enable automatic resizing of my images ” option in Smush CDN – when it’s disabled this error doesn’t show anymore.

    Also, I pinged our developers to check this issue and they will need to have a closer look at your site’s PHP logs and DB so would you please provide us with your cPanel and FTP logins.

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  • Mohammad Sharab
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    Hello Anastasiya,

    Hope you are well and thanks for sending your logins details.

    After debugging we can see the following error in your debug.log is what causing this issue

    https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0

    To fix this error, can you please contact your hosting provider and ask them to set allow_url_fopen=1in PHP settings to enable wrapper in the server configuration.

    After that please enable this option “Enable automatic resizing of my images ” in Smush CDN settings then check if the error still there or not.

    Please let me know how it goes and if you need any further assistance.

    Kind Regards,

    Mohammad Sharab