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by shazow 3183 days ago
Good point, I added a check specifically for this.
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Also, what if somebody links to an enormous, hundred-megabyte sized image?
In the publish interface, we warn that huge images will be marked as NSFS. We also render a static version that we can serve as a backup or when we pass some number of ads.
Alternatively, can you send image compression bombs? (I don't know if image loads can be sent in a compressed format.)
Great question, I too would like to know this