# Can't get avatar overrides to work over SSO

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [24 juli 2016 om 09:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705 "2016-07-24T09:41:45Z")
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### Author: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [28 juli 2016 om 08:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705/3 "2016-07-28T08:50:47Z")

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I can’t, for the life of me, understand why, but non-local avatar URLs work fine.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3abdfaee56f610575faac21c033dd3df7ce1167e.gif)

I wish trying this out had occurred to me, oh, about five days ago 😃

Edit: maybe related to this → [https://meta.discourse.org/t/having-issues-downloading-avatars-from-localhost/45311](https://meta.discourse.org/t/having-issues-downloading-avatars-from-localhost/45311)

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