[Solved] My Gravatar does not appear
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[quote author="Volker" date="1322741834"]
[quote author="Stefan Walter" date="1322722359"]Yes, it disappeared again. That is spooky![/quote]No, it's here![/quote]
I confirm.
What a curious case...
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Volker you are completely right (as usual ;) ! Thanks!
It's the https thingy
I also noticed that when you start from a https page and use a link from there, it stays always right.
So as a workaround I changed my bookmark in my browser and added the s to http and from now on the avatars are correct.So no more
http://developer.qt.nokia.com
But use
https://developer.qt.nokia.com
As a starting bookmarkThanks again.
[edit : unfortunately not all links work using https. Eg. When you click on the moderator badge you get http again, pity]
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I sent the following to the gravatar moderators.
bq. I don't know where to report bugs and hope someone will pick it up here.
But we encountered a problem on our forum have a look at that page which explains problems when using http instead of https. The problem occurs both when someone makes a new gravatar and also when one changes an existing one.I hope they pick it up.
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You need to force the image to refresh; some browsers keep images in cache as long as a month. The actual Gravatar url doesn’t change, so it might take some time before browser retries downloading of the picture.
I note thought that Gravatar has some issues too; simply forcing it to render the picture is few different sizes and letting it be safe and messing with the service makes it appear faster. I had fun time setting my avatar, now it’s visible everywhere... But I guess that’s purpose of Gravatar ;)
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It is NOT a browser cache problem. You can easily check by running the query on a command line tool like curl. The output is
- About to connect() to www.gravatar.com port 80 (#0)
- Trying 93.184.220.20... connected
- Connected to www.gravatar.com (93.184.220.20) port 80 (#0)
GET /avatar.php?gravatar_id=93fe6eb03daa9f497e9f8ff0b1fae5d4&size=48&default=http://developer.qt.nokia.com/images/qtdn/gravatar_empty.png HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
Host: www.gravatar.com
Accept: /< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Cache-Control: max-age=300
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:13:13 GMT
< Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:18:13 GMT
< Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 08:00:00 GMT
< Location: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/images/qtdn/gravatar_empty.png
< Server: ECS (fra/D5AC)
< Source-Age: 0
< Via: 1.1 varnish
< X-Cache: 302-HIT
< X-Varnish: 101923234
< Content-Length: 0
<- Connection #0 to host www.gravatar.com left intact
- Closing connection #0
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It seems that Gravatar stopped working on http, but is working on https.
That can be solved by Gravatar (working again on http URLs) or by Nokia (changing avatar code for "gravatars" to look at secure Gravatar server by default).
And in the mean time until somebody decides to correct it, we (users) can use https as default protocol. Not so bad (temporary) solution today with multi Mbps connections, I'm thankful that 14400 modems are long gone history ;)
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Thanks for your valuable information.
I've made "a bug report on Jira":https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTWEBSITE-330, so our friendly Trolls can pick it up.
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Volker, can you make butter instead? We need it!
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/12/06/butter-shortage-keeps-spreading/
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The butter can be found on the "black market" now! 300g for 1000 NOK here: http://www.finn.no/finn/torget/tilsalgs/annonse?finnkode=32210678
Thats over 400 EUR per kilo :)
I'm going to Finland next week - I'm checking in with luggage on the way back :D
