I had a similar issue a while ago - Avatar images broken behind proxy Letter avatar images are generating a 500 error when loaded directly. From within the Docker container, I can curl https://avatars.discourse.org/ through our proxy server as well as https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/ . I can’t fi…

I am still having this problem. I dug into the code a bit, and as I expected, https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/#{params[:version]}/letter/#{params[:letter]}/#{params[:color]}/#{params[:size]}.png " is what the code is actually requesting. Within the Discourse container, I’m able to wget the file dir…

Doing a curl -I https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4491bb/48.png returns a 500 Internal Server Error. Weirdly, I seem to get two GET requests. I wonder if our loadbalancer is misconfigured. edit: Okay, it’s not the LB, the two GET request thing was a red herring.

This is pretty frustrating. I can’t figure out why letter avatar images are returning 500.

Ahhah, I found out that Discourse has its OWN LOG SECTION ONLY ACCESSIBLE VIA THE WEB USER INTERFACE. /facepalm. This mentions show_proxy_letter so it’s probably relevant. Message (70085 copies reported) Failed to process hijacked response correctly : EOFError : end of file reached Backtrace /u…

Letter images blank behind proxy server

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rbos (Rob Bos) July 10, 2024, 6:37pm 6

I turned off external system avatars entirely.

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