On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just wanted to clarify something... is there any
protection in place in
the thumbnail generator to prevent denial of service attacks? For instance
if someone wanted to they could run a script which uploaded photos then
fired off requests for thumbnails of it of size 20px,21px,22px...1024px
I'm guessing the servers wouldn't like that. This is why I'd be keen to
limit the sizes.
The ability to request an image of whatever size I need is one of my most
favorite MediaWiki features. It's very nice to save the extra step of
resizing it after downloading it. It makes Commons images all the more
easily reusable.
It's quite nice to also be able to have thumbnails of whatever size you
want on Wikipedia, overriding the typical size settings.
I'd be fine if we can throttle such requests to prevent DOS and maybe other
technical measures to make the feature less abused. But would be sad to see
it eliminated.
While it's also nice to hotlink to the images (or via InstantCommons), some
expiry on thumbnails might be acceptable.
Cheers,
Katie
May I suggest someone analyses the sizes currently used on wikipedia and we
limit to those as an initial step and then review the less frequently used
ones and standardise on some sizes?
On Sep 5, 2012 9:15 AM, "Roan Kattouw" <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
The other reason for the existence of the backend
thumbnail store is
to transport images from the thumbnail scalers to the 404 handler. For
that purpose, the image only needs to exist in the backend for a few
seconds. It could be replaced by a better 404 handler, that sends
thumbnails directly by HTTP. Maybe the Swift one does that already.
My understanding is that thumb.php already streamed the thumbnail back
to the 404 handler via HTTP and has done so for at least the past two
years or so.
Roan
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