/v1/thumbs should time out eventually (original #602)

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This issue has been migrated from the CC Search Frontend repository

Author: aldenstpage
Date: Wed Aug 26 2020
Labels: 💻 aspect: code,🙅 status: discontinued,🛠 goal: fix,🟨 priority: medium

Description

If we are having a hard time loading a 3rd party image through our proxy, we should give up thumbnailing it. The frontend will fall back to the full sized image.

If we can't answer thumbnail requests quickly enough, our servers' workers become swamped with thumbnailing requests.

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Original Comments:

Issue author tushar912 commented on Mon Sep 21 2020:

@aldenstpage I would like to work on this. Can u explain this issue a bit.
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aldenstpage commented on Wed Sep 23 2020:

Hi @tushar912, I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you have about the ticket
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manav1403 commented on Sun Oct 11 2020:

@aldenstpage Is it correct that for this issue we have to set a timeout on request when full size is false and if the request exceeds timeout then send the response of the full-sized image
and what should be the value of the timeout?
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[zackkrida]

@WordPress/openverse we have a timeout on this endpoint now, don't we?

[krysal]

Yes, we have it. Related to #630 and #756.