642907 - GMail user photo missing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services :: Server: Share, defect)

Description

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

== copied from https://github.com/mozilla/f1/issues#issue/86 ==

I have a photo set for my GMail account and I haven't seen my F1 update to use that photo, I'm wondering if we're not returning it correctly. Anyone else seeing their photo in the GMail tab?


mixedpuppy

google doesn't provide it to us in the openid+oauth results. I also do not see a 'profile' api for gmail accounts to ask for it...

clarkbw

Oh, I thought it was part of the contacts API call.

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#retrieving_photo

Comment 1

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

The contacts api is not used at the time the users profile for the service is created.  For google and yahoo, which uses openid+oauth, the profile is created based on openid attribute exchange, which does not include a photo.  

We could fix this by retrieving the users contacts during the openid dance, it adds another http request during that step, but we do it for other services anyway.

Comment 2

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

this is a server issue, not a client issue