Add libravatar support to MediaWiki

[strk]

libravatar is a federated avatar service. Avatars for email are retrived by looking up the mail domain DNS.

See ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Libravatar

[Jeff McKenna]

I've installed this libravatar extension. You can see it in action at the top of my profile page: ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

The syntax is:

<libravatar email="jmckenna(at)osgeo(dot)org"/>

[strk]

Nice :) I wonder if we can make it automatically shown in the user table, like I did manually here: ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sandro_Santilli

[strk]

I did the automatism: ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Template:OSGeo_Member&action=edit

Happy now, closing :)

Thank you Jeff!

[neteler]

I notice that the avatar is added via http and not https, see

​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

--> media link is: ​http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/0a704ecea4b9ac81d60689bd711ae938?size=32

Like this the https connection is downgraded to http. Perhaps it needs some other setting in the Extension:Libravatar?

[Jeff McKenna]

I'm not aware of such a setting.

[strk]

I checked this, and found that the plugin should theoretically use HTTPS when HTTPS was used to access the page. Indeed that works for me, ie: I see an https url to the avatar of Jeff_McKenna when going to the link you posted, Markus. Can you reproduce your obtaining http instead ?

Maybe the detection happens once so if the first request was an HTTP it will stick for future requests ? I've filed the issue here anyway: ​https://github.com/netresearch/mediawiki-libravatar/issues/2

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

I checked this, and found that the plugin should theoretically use HTTPS when HTTPS was used to access the page. Indeed that works for me, ie: I see an https url to the avatar of Jeff_McKenna when going to the link you posted, Markus. Can you reproduce your obtaining http instead ?

Still http, see attachment.

And, if you right-click, open-image you still get this link:

​http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0a704ecea4b9ac81d60689bd711ae938.jpg?r=g&s=32&d=http://cdn.libravatar.org/nobody/32.png

Maybe the detection happens once so if the first request was an HTTP it will stick for future requests ?

Mhh, no idea.

I've filed the issue here anyway: ​https://github.com/netresearch/mediawiki-libravatar/issues/2

[neteler]

Screenshot of broken https wiki connection

[strk]

Today I'm also getting http instead of https, this is really odd now... Can you check if you get http on my page too ? ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sandro_Santilli

I get https there.

EDIT: as the two pages were using two different tags, I changed Jeff page tag to be <Libravatar>EMAIL</Libravatar> instead of <Libravatar email="EMAIL" /> And now I get HTTPS in Jeffs page too. Does it work for you too now ?

[strk]

Reassigning to SAC

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

Today I'm also getting http instead of https, this is really odd now... Can you check if you get http on my page too ? ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sandro_Santilli

At time there is no avatar entry, right?

[strk]

On my page avatar is the one on the top-right corner of the "OSGeo Member" tab. It's done automatically by the template, using the "Email" field (try it on your page!)

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

On my page avatar is the one on the top-right corner of the "OSGeo Member" tab. It's done automatically by the template, using the "Email" field (try it on your page!)

ok got it! Yes, your's in now in https.

[strk]

Mine was in https even before. What about Jeff's, do you get Jeff's in https too ?

Can you check with your page too ? My current observation is:

• Using <Libravatar email=".." /> produces http
• Using <Libravatar>...</Libravatar> produces https
• Using OSGeo member form uses the <Libravatar>...</Libravatar> format

[strk]

I'm closing this, it works for me and 11 days are too much for replying :)

[strk]

Libravatar plugin was removed because incompatible with current version of MediaWiki. We need to bring it up to speed, if we figure out how. See ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Libravatar

[strk]

#2907 was created to deal with the replacement