https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28491

--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-04-11 17:06:01 UTC 
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I'm not sure there's not much benefit to using $wgFileExtensions;
$wgFileExtensions controls what you can locally upload so that it can be
verified, managed, rendered into thumbnails, etc. None of that happens with
external images -- they're just put into an <img> so there's no interpretation
or rendering that would depend on the file type. 

We don't even get a chance to control the image's size... :(

I'd actually rather drop $wgAllowExternalImages entirely and replace it, if
it's needed, with a smarter way of dealing with externally sourced images;
guessing imageness from URLs has never been safe or complete to begin with.

Legit use of externally-referenced images is probably better off being done as
some sort of extension that lets you explicitly size, place, and caption them.

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