Comments on: Detecting When Gravatar Has No Image

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:33:31 +0000

That is correct. That is one of the reasons this post is out of date and has a note and link at the top to a newer article.

By: artofthemix

artofthemix — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:25:51 +0000

Gravatar will return a response code of 404 if there is no image if you pass d=404 when asking for a Gravatar. This is a documented and supported method as documented here: http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/

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By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:19:56 +0000

@Mike, Gravatar does have a lot of good options for what you want to show on a Web page when a user doesn't have a Gravatar. It doesn't have to be the blue "G". This technique is really only needed when you want to have software do some further processing on it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:31:04 +0000

Yeah, great find here on the double quotes. Without it, gravatar would be useless for sites that don’t want G’s all over the place just to help out a handful of users.

By: Nick Forge

Nick Forge — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:57:23 +0000

I’m working on a Cocoa class that gives easy Gravatar access, and your tip of using d=%22%22 has been extremely helpful! I haven’t seen that mentioned explicitly anywhere on the net.

Thanks!