<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I agree caching is plugin territory. I'm not a fan of Tim Thumb but I do wish the post thumbnail function could link to external urls. Related to the earlier discussion of a past Tim Thumb vulnerability. It would be great if common theme submission exploits and vulnerabilties could be documented somewhere.<div><div><br></div><div>-Gene</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Fair enough - but should a *Theme* (as opposed to a *Plugin* - by definition, not dependent upon a given Theme) be controlling a site's CDN/caching?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Gene Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emhr@submersible.me">emhr@submersible.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Not every use case involves image leeching. What about Amazon S3 linking? That is one very large reason for having an external post thumbnail capability.<br>
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On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
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> External image as Post Thumbnail? Hotlinking images = bad. :)<br>
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> It's true: the core Post Thumbnail functionality requires the image to exist in the WordPress database.<br>
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> What's the use-case for needing external images as Post Thumbnails?<br>
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> (And doesn't that require PHP to have allow_url_fopen() enabled? That's not usually the default setting, is it?)<br>
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> Chip<br>
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