From ac6275b9067c70997995b7105b7220770391171e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syed Ali Shahbaz <52925846+alishaz-polymath@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:36:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] hotfix for images hosted elsewhere and link stored in DB
 (#1480)

* hotfix for images hosted elsewhere and link stored in DB

* improved if else

Co-authored-by: Peer Richelsen <peeroke@gmail.com>
---
 pages/api/user/avatar.ts | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pages/api/user/avatar.ts b/pages/api/user/avatar.ts
index 550723fc..1c248413 100644
--- a/pages/api/user/avatar.ts
+++ b/pages/api/user/avatar.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,17 @@ export default async function handler(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse)
     .update(user?.email as string)
     .digest("hex");
   const img = user?.avatar;
-  if (img) {
+  if (!img) {
+    res.writeHead(302, {
+      Location: defaultAvatarSrc({ md5: emailMd5 }),
+    });
+    res.end();
+  } else if (!img.includes("data:image")) {
+    res.writeHead(302, {
+      Location: img,
+    });
+    res.end();
+  } else {
     const decoded = img
       .toString()
       .replace("data:image/png;base64,", "")
@@ -33,10 +43,5 @@ export default async function handler(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse)
       "Content-Length": imageResp.length,
     });
     res.end(imageResp);
-  } else {
-    res.writeHead(302, {
-      Location: defaultAvatarSrc({ md5: emailMd5 }),
-    });
-    res.end();
   }
 }