I'll probably just block it in our web filter for now (watchguard). Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676
On 5/3/2010 11:34 AM, JOLY, ROBERT (ROBERT) wrote: > Josh, > I do not believe that there is a way to disable this through config files but > I'll let sipXconfig people comment. > > In the meantime, if you absolutely *must* get rid of default gravatars, there > may be some other alternatives: > > 1- Actually make use the gravatar integration and a create free gravatar > account for every user on your system and upload more acceptable pictures. > This could be impractical depending on the size of your site. > > 2- [Hack Warning] Disable access to gravatar site in your firewall, if it is > capable of such filtering > > 3- [Major Hack Warning] Change your DNS server or hosts table on sipXecs to > resolve gravatar.com to a bogus address. System should be able to cope with > this but it would have to be verified. > > 4- I believe that if a user configures his image from the IM client directly, > this takes precedence over gravatar. > > Not sure that any of this will be useful to you but I thought I'd mention it > just in case... > > bob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org >> [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of >> Josh Patten >> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:21 PM >> Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org >> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Disable Gravatar? >> >> OK, I'll raise a JIRA. In the meantime, is there any way in >> config files to disable it? Is the address book a flash app >> with that URL hardcoded? >> Perhaps I should be asking these questions on the dev list? >> >> Josh Patten >> Assistant Network Administrator >> Brazos County IT Dept. >> (979) 361-4676 >> >> >> On 5/3/2010 10:16 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:11 -0400, Mossman, Paul (Paul) wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Josh wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Is there any way to disable the gravatar feature? Some of the >>>>> default gravatars are not "fitting," to put it lightly, in a >>>>> business environment and might be offensive to some users. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> There's no sipXecs configuration to disable Gravatars. >>>> >>>> But, that sounds like a reasonable enhancement. (A single boolean >>>> checkbox "Disable Gravatars", available to admins only.) >>>> >> Feel free >> >>>> to raise an Improvement JIRA. >>>> >>>> >>> Better yet - provide for configuring a different source for >>> >> them. If >> >>> the URL is left blank, then there are no gravatars, but you >>> >> could also >> >>> reset it to point to a corporate server where the images >>> >> would be more >> >>> appropriate. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List >> Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users >> Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users >> sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ >> _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
