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Isn't allowing your users to hotlink images arbitrarily instead of rehosting usually a mistake anyway?
by bcoates 14y ago
Isn't allowing your users to hotlink images arbitrarily instead of rehosting usually a mistake anyway?
- buro9 14y agoIf by hotlinking you mean that terrible act of theft of bandwidth, then yes! Down with that✝. If by hotlinking you mean inline images that are an essential part of hypertext documents, then no! It's a great thing to support. But the basic thing is that by not hosting, and by being just a proxy, we haven't expressed any ownership or liability over the content that passes through the SSL proxy. And as a side benefit, we don't have to build out storage for this. ✝ for those who like to externalise their responsibility to determine whether their servers serve a request by just stomping around claiming people 'steal' bandwidth.