odoo12-addon-partner-disable-gravatar

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A new feature has been introduced in Odoo v10 in the base module: when you enter an email address in the form view of a partner, Odoo will send a query to gravatar.com <https://www.gravatar.com/>_ to get a picture corresponding to the email address.

Gravatar <//www.gravatar.com/>_, which stands for Globally Recognized Avatar, is a website where any user can open an account and register a correspondance between his email address and a picture. That way, his picture/avatar will be automatically set on all websites that are connected to gravatar.com: he won't have to manually configure his picture/avatar on every website.

In Odoo, when you enter an email address in the form view of a partner (i.e. triggered via the onchange on the email field) and this partner doesn't have any image yet in Odoo, Odoo will automatically send an HTTPS query to www.gravatar.com <https://www.gravatar.com/>_ with an MD5 hash of the email of the partner. If it receives an answer from gravatar.com in the form of a picture within the 5 seconds timeout, it will set this picture on the image field of the partner in Odoo.

Some people may consider it as a cool feature to easily get picture on partners with no effort.

But other people may consider this as an annoying feature that adds unnecessary network trafic or, worse, as a leak of information. With this feature, gravatar.com is notified of all the email addresses added in the Odoo database, so it may be considered as a leak of information to a third party company (gravatar.com is operated by Automattic Inc. <https://automattic.com/contact/>_, an American company). The problem is that there is no way to disable this feature via a configuration parameter of Odoo. This module brings a solution to this problem: once installed, it disables the feature.

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Configuration

No configuration required. Installing the module will disable the automatic connection to gravatar.com.

Bug Tracker

Bugs are tracked on GitHub Issues <https://github.com/OCA/partner-contact/issues>. In case of trouble, please check there if your issue has already been reported. If you spotted it first, help us to smash it by providing a detailed and welcomed feedback <https://github.com/OCA/partner-contact/issues/new?body=module:%20partner_disable_gravatar%0Aversion:%2012.0%0A%0A**Steps%20to%20reproduce**%0A-%20...%0A%0A**Current%20behavior**%0A%0A**Expected%20behavior**>.

Do not contact contributors directly about support or help with technical issues.

Credits

Authors

* Akretion

Contributors

• Alexis de Lattre [e-mail]

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

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OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and
promote its widespread use.

This module is part of the `OCA/partner-contact <https://github.com/OCA/partner-contact/tree/12.0/partner_disable_gravatar>`_ project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.