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Removing a photo from a profile

To remove a photo from a profile, use the HTTP DELETE method.

You can only remove the image file from the profile of the user whose credentials you use to authenticate with the server. See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request. To remove a photo from a profile...

1. Get the service document for the person's profile. See Retrieving the Profiles service document.

2. Get the URI of the profiles feed which is specified in the href attribute of the collection element in the service document and use it to get the profiles feed for the person.

3. Find the <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" .../> element returned in the feed. For example:

   <link 
        href="https://profiles.enterprise.acme.com/profiles/photo.do?key=
         b559403a-9r32-2c81-c99w-ppq8bb69442j&lastMod=1204662695516" 
        rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" 
        type="image" /> 
   

4. Send a DELETE request to the Web address specified in the href attribute.

By default, Profiles provides a generic image for users who have deleted or not added a photo to their profile.

Atom API request details

Method	Resource	URI	Input and output representations
DELETE	image file	Found in the href attribute of <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/image" .../> element in the user's profiles feed.	none

 

Input

None

 

Output

None Returned HTTP Headers

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Indicates activity was successfully deleted (and no content is returned).

Errors

• HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden: Authorization failed.

• HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Working with profile photos

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