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400 bad request error trying to upload a profile picture (piefed.social)

submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by baronvonj@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social

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I've tried two files, the larger is under 130 kB and 900x750 pixels.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Ok, me too. I just updated my profile picture and it worked so there's probably something special about the image you're using. Can you email it to me contact@piefed.social as an attachment?

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

sent

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Rename the file to have .jpg on the end, then it'll work. With the dot.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure why the attachment lost the extension. And actually the whole filename was completely different then my local copy. That's weird. It did give me an idea that turned out to work, but I couldn't begin to reason why. I have the file saved in google drive, and am using GNOME's online accounts to access google drive within my file browser. So when I went to the profile settings in Piefed to upload the file as my profile pic, I selected it directly from the mounted google drive in the firefox file chooser. I did that for both the profile pic and my banner image. They're in the same folder in the same google drive. The banner image worked but not the profile pic. So I just copied the profile pic to my actual local drive, and uploaded it to Piefed from there, and that worked.

So the issue seems to have ultimately been something about how firefox receives the file from Google Drive in GNOME's file system APIs, but it is inconsistent.

Anyway, problem solved.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

Weird. Thanks for reporting back!