LinkedIn Profile Image missing on Authentication from App - linkedin

I use REST API to share articles/posts on LinkedIn Timeline and Company pages. To do so, I authorize my LI profile with the APP for accessing the profile info. As a result, could view the profile/image of a user in the APP. Everything worked fine until, for some time now, aren't able to view the user profile image from the APP. Now, it looks like:
Previous image URL starts with(accessible): https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mprx/0_
Current image URL starts with(could not access): https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/
On accessing the image in the browser,
Help me understand what has changed with LI. Thanks.

Are you injecting the URL in same way that's escaping it? The URL recently changed and has some characters that templating engines such as Handlebars will mistakenly escape.
If you inject the URL without escaping it, it should work just fine.

Check out this documentation. https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/ref/v2/media-migration,
The problem which I was facing was the image loaded sometimes, but after some days it would give above error.
The new id will be dynamic and can change from time to time. We recommend retrieving at least once every 60 days to update your media-typed URN.
In order to fix this, I save the image, the moment it is received on to personal storage(AWS S3).

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I am looking for a way to make that happen without keeping any db records or saving information on a text file or smth like that. (Not seccessarily, then. Of course I am going to save that info to a dB, I just wanted to the logic of catching opened page addresses.)
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Having two account is a solution, but my geeky nature would prefer to have only one account, with the following magic: every message containing a special tag (e.g. "#blog") will appear on my wordpress blog page. Everything else will not appear on the blog.
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This is actually a follow up on my previous question (link)
I've created the HttpHandler and it works fine for now, I'll add flexibility by using the querystring and session to point the post I'm making in the right direction.
The next question is as follows.
Now that I have the old page iframed as it should be, there's still the trouble of handling the postbacks (or actions) these pages trigger.
Every button action (asp form post) refers to a page that is not there (it's on the other server from which I am importing functionality).
I've tried using a url mapping to the other server but I get an error that tells me the external link is not a valid virtual directory. Hence I discarded this option.
I there anyway to keep functionality going inside the iframe?
please do ask clarification if you need it.
I got a solution from a colleague.
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