This script is a simple web service used to link HTTP URLs to XMPP avatars (used with vcard-temp).
A demo service is available at http://avatar.jeproteste.info/.
Images are available at http://avatar.jeproteste.info/avatar/<jid>; example:
./avatar.py --jid service_jid@example --password service_password --port 8765 --host 127.0.0.1
will start a HTTP server listening on http://127.0.0.1:8765 and make a
XMPP client connect to the account service_jid@example.com using
service_password as a password.
A --avatar_prefix can be set, to add a URL prefix (by default avatar/)
for the request (so the URL will be /avatar/jid@example.com).
Avatars are mostly static, so it is a waste of CPU time and network resources to fetch them at every request. If is therefore highly beneficial to put the HTTP server behind nginx, which will act as a caching proxy.
proxy_cache_path /path/to/your/cache/dir keys_zone=avatar:20m max_size=200m;
server {
proxy_cache avatar;
proy_cache_valid 200 1h;
proxy_cache_valid any 5m;
listen 80;
server_name avatar.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8765;
}
}
This code is licenced under the WTFPL.