Server issue 【serious bug】Upload avatar can actually make a 520 ERROR to the website? including here at xenforo.com!

gogo

Well-known member
Affected version
v2.1.8 Patch 2
Ok, I got this problem after I uploaded an avatar image to my forum.

The "new" avatar just shows as a little dot.


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Sometimes it appears empty:

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Sometimes the lower part of the avatar is not showing:

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Then after a reload of the page, I got this

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It's a system wise problem, not just for particular user.

I'll have to wait a while to have the system come back and stable. The uploaded avatar appears normal. The problem seems have never happened.

What's the worst, I just tested it in xenforo.com/community and the same error appeared!

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This problem only happens for avatar uploading, not for attachment uploading.

I attached the images I used for testing.
 

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It's a Cloudflare issue and has Notting to do with avatar uploads.

Just disable CloudFlare.
 
It's a Cloudflare issue and has Notting to do with avatar uploads.

Just disable CloudFlare.

But I can reproduce the 520 error easily by the avatar upload now. So it's not really something random.

People in that thread never mentioned about this. They thought it's a random problem caused by CF..

Let me reproduce the problem in xenforo.com again now. Just want to make sure I'm right.

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look at my avatar. missing the lower part.

See? Just by uploading avatar I can cause so many problems to the server.


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ERROR 520 is easily created.

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I believe everybody is affected by this error now? look at the time stamp.
 
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I wonder if anyone else can also test the avatar uploading thing and see you can also reproduce this problem.

You can try using any images actually. I suspect it's something to do with image size/dimension. etc.
 
I just did a few tests (uploaded & deleted an avatar here at xenforo.com about 10 times) and did not experience a single issue.
 
I believe it's related to CF cache too. And upload an avatar will make use of this cache thing that causes all those problems..1588408378268.png
 
Nothing further to report and no known issues currently so if you’re experiencing something please create a new thread and let us know and we’ll look into it.
 
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