Hovers display old Gravatar

[leo9-py]

• GitLens Version: v12.0.3
• Git Version: 2.34.1.windows.1
• VSCode Version: 1.65.2 x64
• OS Version: Windows 10.0.19044.1526 LTSC

Using GitLens I noticed that the pop out Gravatar displayed is stale and not updating as fast as it should.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Update Gravatar on https://en.gravatar.com/
2. Check pop out by hovering over blame line.
3. Note that Gravatar is stale

I noticed that to alleviate this issue you can simply omit the '.jpg' in the request as GitLens sends a request (with my email hash) for
https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e59f9ec19fc467009d1e4cea53f959cb.jpg?s=64&d=robohash
and not
https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e59f9ec19fc467009d1e4cea53f959cb?s=64&d=robohash
for a faster change.

[eamodio]

@amouxaden are you actually seeing a difference from gravatar itself, meaning if you update your image and you hit:
https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e59f9ec19fc467009d1e4cea53f959cb.jpg?s=64&d=robohash
vs
https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e59f9ec19fc467009d1e4cea53f959cb?s=64&d=robohash

You see a different version?

Or is this only in GitLens? I ask because GitLens caches avatars to avoid refreshing them often. I forget off hand for how long I cache them for before expiring them (but it's pretty long). You can always run the GitLens: Reset Avatar Cache from the Command Palette to make GitLens drop the cache and re-request the avatars.

[leo9-py]

@eamodio Yes precisely. I'm seeing a difference from the request that includes the .jpg vs the one that doesn't. It looks like this is a caching issue on Gravatars end but could possibly be resolved in the extension with omitting the file extension from the request.

Regarding the GitLens: Reset Avatar Cache, running from the command palette has no effect on my gravatar as I believe it reloads the old one again from gravatar with the file extension included.

After making a test build of GitLens with the file extension excluded, it was successfully able to load the most up to date version. I published this change with #1899

[eamodio]

OK, awesome -- thank you so much for the investigation and PR! I will get that PR merged in for the next release. ❤️

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