On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > The other reason for the existence of the backend thumbnail store is > to transport images from the thumbnail scalers to the 404 handler. For > that purpose, the image only needs to exist in the backend for a few > seconds. It could be replaced by a better 404 handler, that sends > thumbnails directly by HTTP. Maybe the Swift one does that already. > My understanding is that thumb.php already streamed the thumbnail back to the 404 handler via HTTP and has done so for at least the past two years or so.
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