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how to disable requests to gravatar.com?

My Askbot instance is running into the private network of my company and has no authorized access to the web. An other aspect is that Credentials are managed with the internal LDAP. Even if is not critical, we do not want to create automatically records based on the emails in the gravatar database.

So, I would like to know what's the best way to disable requests to gravatar.com. Knowing that I want to keep the possibility to the user to upload the image he wants and it does not matter if the image by default is the same for all the users.

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Evgeny
updated 2011-11-09 06:36:47 -0500, updated 2012-07-30 09:46:39 -0500
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Just an aside: Generating robot avatars using http://robohash.org/ could be a useful alternative to gravatar.

Joseph's avatar Joseph (2011-11-16 03:30:21 -0500) edit

We should get this done soon, someone is looking at this feature.

Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (2011-11-24 12:13:44 -0500) edit
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This was solved: as admin go to "settings" ... -> "user settings" -> uncheck "use automatic avatars from gravatar.com".

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Evgeny
answered 2012-07-30 09:43:35 -0500
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Well the matter I want to point is in the user_get_avatar_url function from models/__init__.py

In this function, we have :

            ...
            logging.critical(message)
            raise django_exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured(message)
    else:
        return self.get_gravatar_url(size)
else:
    ...

But shouldn't it be

        ...
            logging.critical(message)
            raise django_exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured(message)
    else:
        if askbot_settings.ENABLE_GRAVATAR:
            return self.get_gravatar_url(size)
        else:
            return self.get_default_avatar_url(size)
else:
    ...

in order to entirely disable requests to gravatar website?

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bgenevaux
answered 2012-07-30 09:50:13 -0500
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Maybe, thanks I will look into this.

Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (2012-07-30 10:23:28 -0500) edit
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