On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai <georgiy.tugai(a)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]]