Playerheads delayed skin

I created a playerhead and set the owner of it. The head works perfectly fine, nothing wrong with the code or anything, just that the skin of the head takes ages to load. Sometimes clicking the item will load it, and sometimes you just have to wait for it.
Spawning a head from essentials loads the skin instantly, but looking at the source for essentials, they do not do anything different from what I do to spawn heads.
Any idea why the skin takes forever to load, and any possible fixes?
Note: Updating the players inventory does not help.
I am making the item like this:

Code:

ItemStack head = new ItemStack(Material.SKULL_ITEM, 1, (short) 3);
SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta) head.getItemMeta();
meta.setOwner(player.getName());
head.setItemMeta(meta);

Like I said the head works perfectly fine, but the skin takes forever to actually show up.

 

@567legodude Try giving yourself a player's head with the /give command. See if the skin takes ages to load for that.

 

@teej107 Sometimes when I give the head to myself, it loads instantly, other times it just turns into alex and never loads. There are two commands I tried to give it to myself, both failed. (Usually load instantly) EDIT: These commands do load the head instantly. When placed in the inventory by my plugin it takes a long time. After a server restart the heads take about 5 seconds to load but it gets longer each time.

Code:

/give 567legodude head 1 3 Player:567legodude
/i head:3 1 Player:567legodude

 

try player.updateInventory(); It might work, no promises.

 

@sgavster

 

Its an mc 1.8 bug

I think so though

 

@LetsTalkTnTHere I don't think its a bug, because I can make a head the exact same way as other plugins, but it will not work.

 

@LetsTalkTnTHere 1.8 belongs in a different section. @567legodude A 1.8 bug will not affect 1.7.

 

@teej107 @1Rogue Told me on the spigot forums: "Set it in a different thread, using Skull#setOwner will trigger a blocking web request if the skin isn't cached."
I tried using a thread to do it, and it created the item, but the skin did not update any faster.

 

It won't make it faster, it will just not lag your server.