Where's all the avatar's gone?

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I too rather doubt any slowdown has anything to do with avatars.

This problem for whatever reason is the use of https in the forum path to the avatar location, this results in a 404 error if you try to reach it independent of the forum page. When you use http the avatar can be displayed, so the question really is how come it uses https when http works (looks like a secure server or secure handling issue). I can’t recall if the path to the avatars always had https or if they had http.

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yep david, I forgot about that… the onsite avatars are on ssl… and there’s been issues with that already in the past.

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Yes there was an SSL issue before that I can remember, but I thought that was related to self-certification.

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Perhaps they simply did some cleaning(getting rid of old files etc.) and optimizing on the forum.

Or maybe they moved the avatar directory as that apparently does wonders for forum loads… The forum has been quite fast for me today and i hope it stays that way.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=197938.msg1258539#msg1258539

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yeah there’s been a cert issue…all onsite avatars have disappeared once already…which may have been related to the cert issue :)…as again avatars here are ssl accessed… the issue got solved quickly at the time.

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I don’t really care what they did tbh, like i said the forum is working great right now and i hope it stays this way. It’s been quite bad for the last few months…

27

I once was lost, but now I’m found…

Hosting my own pic now.

28

Wishful thinking on your part, unfortunately its back.

29

I’m using Photobucket from now on.

30

No avatars :cry:

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I think it is a temporary cockup which will hopefully be quickly resolved (more serious thing on their minds right now I guess), until then there is always old-school photobucket.

32

Hope it was not an external attack who caused it ;D

33

I rather doubt that, your looking for too many ghosts ;D

If you read my posts further back you will see it is related to https/SSL handling.

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Yeah, all the avatars are back.
I think avast! have to update the forum.
The latest version of SMF is 1.1.12

35

There is no ghosts anymore :slight_smile:

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There never was one Tech till you started to look for skeletons in an empty closet. ;D

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Uh Uh… I love skeletons ;D