http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/10/19/breaking-image-caches/ Am I a finished product -- or a work in progress? Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:02:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/10/19/breaking-image-caches/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Aleksey Gureev Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:16:35 +0000 http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/10/19/breaking-image-caches/#comment-150 Hm... But how it helps Person A? If I take URL from his feed, I still can reuse it everywhere as this random plays no role and even can be omitted. Hm… But how it helps Person A? If I take URL from his feed, I still can reuse it everywhere as this random plays no role and even can be omitted.

]]> http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/10/19/breaking-image-caches/comment-page-1/#comment-149 ade Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:56:58 +0000 http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/10/19/breaking-image-caches/#comment-149 This usually done by people who don't want others 'stealing' their bandwidth be re-using their images. If Person A hosts lots of images on their site (e.g someone like Tim Bray who posts lots of photos he's taken on his site) then sooner or later other people start using this pictures as background graphics. This leads to a situation where Person A is serving the same image to lots of people who are not even aware that the image comes from Person A but assume it comes from Persons B - Z. This can get very expensive very quickly if Persons B - Z link to lots of images on your site and host popular sites of their own. This usually done by people who don’t want others ’stealing’ their bandwidth be re-using their images. If Person A hosts lots of images on their site (e.g someone like Tim Bray who posts lots of photos he’s taken on his site) then sooner or later other people start using this pictures as background graphics. This leads to a situation where Person A is serving the same image to lots of people who are not even aware that the image comes from Person A but assume it comes from Persons B – Z. This can get very expensive very quickly if Persons B – Z link to lots of images on your site and host popular sites of their own.

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