Weird denial of service attempts using 1 pixel images
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	Feb 1 2008, 2:07 AM

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2600+ of them to be precise. See [[Special:DeletedContributions/Ffddd]] for examples, [[Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/1pixel]] and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=188289324#1px_image_DoS_vandal_is_back .

The question is whether there should be some sort of technical restriction on image usage to prevent this from happening again. 500/page might be a good place to start - I have never had a use for that many images even in my work at [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures]].

Version: 1.12.x
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MER-C created this task.Feb 1 2008, 2:07 AM

A denial of service attempt is not a bug. If you want to discuss it, please see the wikitech-l thread.

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Dec 4 2014, 10:49 AM

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