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Suggestion: add option to choose custom API for Image Heads #3287
Description
Are you using MySQL?
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Are you using a proxy?
No
"/version ChatControlRed" - plugin version
11.4.8 / any
Optional: Error log
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ZIP of "/chc debug"
(This error only shows every 30min) Unable to look up player head from head: {player_name}. Error: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't get input stream from URL!
Steps to reproduce
Today, displaying the player's head image via "Image_Head": "{player_name}" in motd.yml has stopped working. Also, if you enable in chat.yml:
# Shows the head of the specified player before their messages
#player-head:
#Message: ""
#Hover: "{player}"
#Image_Head: "{player}"
#Image_Height: 10
#Image_Type: "LIGHT_SHADE"
the same issue occurs.
Just try displaying the player's head image using "Image_Head": "{player_name}", for example, in the same motd.yml etc.
Activity
[-]Version: 1.21.8[/-][+]Image_Head stop working | Version: 1.21.8[/+]coldpitch commentedon Aug 16, 2025
I also wrote a simple plugin that sends a ping to https://mc-heads.net/avatar/myname, and it returned a 403 error, but maybe problem in User-Agent, idk, because
curl -Ion my VDS machine returns status 200, but a ping through the plugin on the running Purpur server returns 403, I can assume that the issue might be with the user-agent and the CDN of https://mc-heads.net/, which simply blocks pings from my plugin.devpedrobarbosa commentedon Aug 16, 2025
@coldpitch
You're right — the issue is that https://mc-heads.net/ is returning a 403 Forbidden. Not sure why that’s happening yet, but I’ll look into it.
coldpitch commentedon Aug 17, 2025
@devpedrobarbosa
I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to suggest solutions here, but maybe you’d like the idea of adding an option to choose a “skin source”? As far as I know, this kind of API is provided not only by https://mc-heads.net/.
Or make a redirect through an external script (which can be hosted on a self-hosted machine), just open an additional port on it so that the image request goes through it, and then it sends the response back to the game.
devpedrobarbosa commentedon Aug 18, 2025
Sure thing! This seems fair enough to be implemented. The user could actually have it's own API...
Thanks for sharing.
I'll be looking into implementing this.
[-]Image_Head stop working | Version: 1.21.8[/-][+]Suggestion: add option to choose custom API for Image Heads[/+]devpedrobarbosa commentedon Aug 18, 2025
I changed the title since Image_Head didn't actually stop working.
kangarko commentedon Aug 20, 2025
@devpedrobarbosa this could be added, just have a public static setter for a custom url in foundation and then call it in simplesettings of chatcontrol
devpedrobarbosa commentedon Aug 25, 2025
It's already implemented and will be available in the next release.
Thanks @coldpitch