https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32219

--- Comment #11 from Chad H. <[email protected]> 2011-11-11 20:52:09 UTC 
---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > What is exactly the usefulness of this? As far as I know thumbnails are 
> > cached
> > on the local server, and passed by it to the user. So regardless whether
> > $wgInstantCommons fetches thumbnails over http or https, the user will still
> > get the images over the same protocol as the the rest of the page.
> Hmm, true. This would be useful for direct thumbnail fetches but you're right
> that it would not be useful for direct server-to-server requests.

Right, assuming you're using $wgUseInstantCommons and not configuring
$wgForeignFileRepos yourself, the direct thumb fetches won't happen (hence my
comment above about it only affecting the description urls).

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