https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64214
Bug ID: 64214
Summary: Use content hash based image / thumb URLs
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: File management
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
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Content hash based URLs for media files and thumbnails have some advantages
over the current pretty names:
* automatic cache busting
* consistency of HTML revisions and media referenced in it, in particular in
old revisions (important for HTML storage and Parsoid)
* natural content-based deduplication
* content-based image blocking (bad image lists etc)
* media renames don't trigger HTML updates
* simplifies a potential migration of all media content to commons
There are also some disadvantages:
* need to use Content-disposition header to suggest pretty name for image
saving
* need to think about quick image purging for copyvio cases, as cache busting
is not enough there
The details of what we'd need to do for this should probably be fleshed out
on-wiki. For now I'm dropping this note here as a reminder and short summary.
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