Requesting avatar thumbnails in Element uses wrong http "user-agent" string

[andyg1001]

Since the migration to Element, user avatars are now no longer shown at all, just the coloured circle with a letter in it. Changing my own avatar from the general settings screen works in the sense that the chosen picture is updated on my parallel Linux element-desktop installation (1.7.1) but I still don't get to see it in the Android client. I don't know if this is also true of avatars for communities/group chats, but it may be.

This is definitely a regression from the previous Riot.im client on Android - which worked perfectly in this regard.

I am connecting to our own home-server, and in case this has an impact, the home-server is not on port 443 because this is assigned to another server in our NAT.

[andyg1001]

Ok, done some research. The issue is not the different https port, but that when the client requests "GET /_matrix/media/r0/thumbnail/..." it doesn't use the normal http-agent "Element (Riot.im)/1.0.0 (Linux; U; Android 8.0.0 ...)" but a totally different one "Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 8.0.0 ...)" and this is what the firewall is blocking.

I have checked all the way through the server logs. This is the only message that uses this alternative http-agent. All other messages use the normal one.

Can this be changed so that it uses the normal (correct?) http-agent for this message too?

[bmarty]

We should give the user agent to Glide

[andyg1001]

Just popping by to say this has been fixed in the latest update (v1.0.2). Thank you!

[bmarty]

Fixed by #1766, thanks for the follow up @andyg1001 !