Unique NXE Avatar URLs discovered Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Unique NXE Avatar URLs discovered Posted by XanTium | October 21 14:36 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From xbox360fanboy.com: [QUOTE] An anonymous tipster has informed Xbox 360 Fanboy that Avatars -- the cute, customizable user characters that will launch with the New Xbox Experience -- will each have their own unique URL (which won't open in Firefox or Safari, by the way). The URLs in question lead to PNG files of a users Avatar. There is a full body image along with two smaller images of user created Avatar Gamerpics. All of them are stored at the site avatar.xboxlive.com, which currently leads to a blank page. Will these images be part of a broader social networking platform? [/QUOTE] Full Story: xbox360fanboy.com

[deadlokIV]

This is pretty interesting, although it doesn't surprise me.
I'm guessing that NXE wants to give people the option to share their avatars much like those xbox live badges.

Does anyone know why IE displays the page 'correctly', whereas firefox/safari loads the .png data as ascii? It's bugging me a little...

[eduardor2k]

This is pretty interesting, although it doesn't surprise me.
I'm guessing that NXE wants to give people the option to share their avatars much like those xbox live badges.

Does anyone know why IE displays the page 'correctly', whereas firefox/safari loads the .png data as ascii? It's bugging me a little...

I imagine that the header sent from the file are incorrect, that's why Firefox can't display the picture.

[Neilor]

Tried also for BigVIP and E.. they both have avators, MajorNelson is not showing anything yet though

[deadlokIV]

Thanks eduardor.

Also, just to join the "I tried this" parade...
"notwen" has an avatar too.

I thought that Newton died a rumour-driven death?

[tgm4883]

This is pretty interesting, although it doesn't surprise me.
I'm guessing that NXE wants to give people the option to share their avatars much like those xbox live badges.

Does anyone know why IE displays the page 'correctly', whereas firefox/safari loads the .png data as ascii? It's bugging me a little...

Looks like the last-modified header is invalid. If you run linux you can wget it. I'm sure there are other ways too but that just what I tried first.

I've attached the pic here http://imagebin.org/29226

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--2008-10-21 16:50:32--  http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/trixie360/avatar-body.png
Resolving avatar.xboxlive.com... 68.142.93.39, 68.142.93.41
Connecting to avatar.xboxlive.com|68.142.93.39|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31928 (31K) [text/html]
Saving to: `avatar-body.png.1'

100%& #91;============================================================================
===========>] 31,928       116K/s   in 0.3s    

Last-modified header invalid -- time-stamp ignored.
2008-10-21 16:50:33 (116 KB/s) - `avatar-body.png.1' saved [31928/31928]

:EDIT:
the .1 was added cause I d/l it twice

This post has been edited by tgm4883: Oct 22 2008, 01:46 AM

[spinr34]

Tried also for BigVIP and E.. they both have avators, MajorNelson is not showing anything yet though

Major's is actually http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/major%20...avatar-body.png

i'm sure everyone on the xbox team has an avatar. just remember if there's a space in the gamertag it's %20.

[Digitaloutcast]

Major's is actually http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/major%20...avatar-body.png

i'm sure everyone on the xbox team has an avatar. just remember if there's a space in the gamertag it's %20.

good find

[mcklain]

Those png's may also contain all of the avatar information apart from the images. Just like Spore does with the png's of the things that you create.

It would be interesting to look at all the png fields.

[Wittmann]

Firefox users can view this link if you install the IE-tab extension

[crispwarez]

its strange

if you use them elsewhere they show in ff
http://brownmurder.x10hosting.com/avatar.php?gt=brownmurder

that is a direct link to the avatar and it shows

[fearphage]

Does anyone know why IE displays the page 'correctly', whereas firefox/safari loads the .png data as ascii? It's bugging me a little...

This is because the image (.png) is server with the mimetype text/html. HTTP server response:

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:19:25 GMT    
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0    
Cache-Control: max-age=10, must-revalidate    
Last-Modified: 10/14/2008 4:57:21 PM    
Content-Type: text/html    
Content-Length: 31928    
Connection: close

Notice the Content-Type header.

This post has been edited by fearphage: Oct 23 2008, 05:23 PM

[ssj4android]

These might actually be meant for viewing on the 360.

[synthetamine]

lol. probably a tie in to the drowned Zune social network.

If you think about it that way, the possibilities are pretty endless. But if nobody is seeing it as I do then I will continue typing:

so there was xbox live and msn instant messenger. then ms started changing everything to "live" , and now its Windows Live messenger and Xbox Live, which makes perfect sense. So that sort of consolidation of Live wouldn't make it too farfetched to see their Zune be part of the infrastructure.

In that case, start with these avatars and some sort of social network, tie that into the Zune's Social network, surprise update to the zune to include the avatars. Next-gen zune has one of those pico-projectors that have been put in phones as of late, everyone projects their avatars on the wall and a whole host of other gimmicky features.

anyway, you heard it here first.

[troyBORG]

They work now in firefox.