[Fixit]

While it does not now, if you go back and read the original post, general_re was suggesting that the FR server COULD go out and determine the image size attributes, then automatically insert the image size attributes into the html for that user's post.

Such a system would (marginally) add some bandwidth to the FR server at the time of posting, but it could serve to increase everyone elses enjoyability by easing all future downloads.

[Jay D. Dyson]

While it does not now, if you go back and read the original post, general_re was suggesting that the FR server COULD go out and determine the image size attributes, then automatically insert the image size attributes into the html for that user's post.

Ah. Missed that.

Sadly, such a system would make FR an easy target for a denial-of-service attack. All that would be required would be a few morons from the DU crowd to post a buttload of bogus images on servers that respond only once every sixty or ninety seconds. That would cause the server connection from FR to hang and then timeout. Meanwhile, the process table on the FR system would fill up with all these hung outbound connections to the point that it would stop answering incoming web requests. Bang. Denial-of-service.

Sorry, I can't hop on board with that plan. It's ill-conceived and fraught with potential for abuse.

-Jay

[supercat]

Such a system would (marginally) add some bandwidth to the FR server at the time of posting, but it could serve to increase everyone elses enjoyability by easing all future downloads.

How about having FR give some javascript to the poster's browser if any image sizes are not included, and have that javascript figure out and tell FR the proper sizes?