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Abort img prefetch if Content-Length exceeds limit

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If the Content-Length header is present in the response when an image
is prefetched, The Lounge can avoid wasting bandwidth (both for itself
and for the image's host) if the value of the header exceeds the
prefetch size limit by aborting the request immediately.
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dgw 2017-09-24 06:37:24 -05:00
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src/plugins/irc-events/link.js
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@ -159,7 +159,14 @@ function fetch(uri, cb) {
var limit = Helper.config.prefetchMaxImageSize * 1024;
req
.on("response", function(res) {
if (!(/^image\/.+/.test(res.headers["content-type"]))) {
if (/^image\/.+/.test(res.headers["content-type"])) {
// response is an image
// if Content-Length header reports a size exceeding the prefetch limit, abort fetch
const contentLength = parseInt(res.headers["content-length"], 10) || 0;
if (contentLength > limit) {
req.abort();
}
} else {
// if not image, limit download to 50kb, since we need only meta tags
// twitter.com sends opengraph meta tags within ~20kb of data for individual tweets
limit = 1024 * 50;