On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai georgiy.tugai@gmail.com wrote:
However, this is also an avenue for denial of service - someone could create many links to different images with non-standard sizes, intentionally or unintentionally, and therefore overload computational (temporarily) and storage resources on the server.
Note that this has been debated at least a few times in the past. See e.g. the thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/63701/
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]