# SSO avatars not being overridden

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607
**Category:** SSO
**Created:** [December 21, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607 "2016-12-21T17:40:14Z")
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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: [December 21, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/2 "2016-12-21T18:23:57Z")

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If you’re in development, maybe it’s this:

> [@Can't get avatar overrides to work over SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705/3):
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> I can’t, for the life of me, understand why, but non-local avatar URLs work fine. I wish trying this out had occurred to me, oh, about five days ago smiley 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)

Edit: nevermind, you’re using non-local URLs.

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