Summary of Issue

In legacy versions of Minecraft (classic up to at least beta 1.7.3) skins currently don't show. This also includes Capes, which should appear in Beta versions.

This is because skins used to be hosted at http://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftSkins/

I see this as a launcher issue, as it can only be fixed with changes to the launchwrapper library, aka LegacyLauncher.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open any modern launcher version.
2. Ensure you are using a custom skin.
3. Launch any Java Minecraft version before Release 1.7.8
4. View your player via the inventory or third-person camera. Your skin will be missing. Alternatively join a server and view another player, they will also be missing skins.

Additional Resources

• Screenshots can be found in the comments.
• I have opened a Pull Request for Mojang's launchwrapper which fixes this issue. Please consider merging this fix.

Proposed Fix

https://github.com/Mojang/LegacyLauncher/pull/33