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Related: looks like direct links to imgur-hosted images now redirect to html content that have... semi-sticky headers and footers.
by hughes 9y ago
Related: looks like direct links to imgur-hosted images now redirect to html content that have... semi-sticky headers and footers.
- jdmichal 9y agoMaybe only on mobile. When I tell Firefox to load the desktop version, it goes directly to the image. Normally I would say that loading a HTML page plus an image instead of just an image seems like a strange choice for mobile. However, it does seem that the HTML version pulls a resized image. The source URL has a "maxwidth" parameter, so there's probably some bandwidth savings in there.
- SpaceManiac 9y agoThe site could just as easily serve you the resized image directly instead of an HTML page which will then embed the same resized image. I've already seen Imgur tell the difference between page visits and appearing in src="", so it wouldn't need to break anything.
- throwanem 9y agoOnly when the request includes a referer. Without one, it just loads the image.