But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn't raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
First of all, the notion being peddled in much of the British media that customers who are quite sensibly avoiding BA now will never return is nonsense.
This basically grabs the request parameter with the image name, looks it up in the database, and returns all the information about that image, separated by pipes (| s), just like the spec said.