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It's more like a bot than a core part of the server.</li> -</ul> -</li> -</ul> -<ol start="4"> -<li>Make the sending client use the preview API and insert the event itself when successful.</li> -</ol> -<ul> -<li>Pros: -<ul> -<li>Works well with E2E</li> -<li>No custom server functionality</li> -<li>Lets the client customise the preview that they send (like on FB)</li> -</ul> -</li> -<li>Cons: -<ul> -<li>Entirely specific to the sending client, whereas it'd be nice if /any/ URL was correctly previewed if clients support it.</li> -</ul> -</li> -</ul> -<ol start="5"> -<li>Have the option of specifying a shared (centralised) previewing service used by a room, to avoid all the different HSes in the room DoSing the target.</li> -</ol> -<p>Best solution is probably a combination of both 2 and 4.</p> -<ul> -<li>Sending clients do their best to create and send a preview at the point of sending the message, perhaps delaying the message until the preview is computed? (This also lets the user validate the preview before sending)</li> -<li>Receiving clients have the option of going and creating their own preview if one doesn't arrive soon enough (or if the original sender didn't create one)</li> -</ul> -<p>This is a bit magical though in that the preview could come from two entirely different sources - the sending HS or your local one. However, this can always be exposed to users: "Generate your own URL previews if none are available?"</p> -<p>This is tantamount also to senders calculating their own thumbnails for sending in advance of the main content - we are trusting the sender not to lie about the content in the thumbnail. Whereas currently thumbnails are calculated by the receiving homeserver to avoid this attack.</p> -<p>However, this kind of phishing attack does exist whether we let senders pick their thumbnails or not, in that a malicious sender can send normal text messages around the attachment claiming it to be legitimate. We could rely on (future) reputation/abuse management to punish users who phish (be it with bogus metadata or bogus descriptions). Bogus metadata is particularly bad though, especially if it's avoidable.</p> -<p>As a first cut, let's do #2 and have the receiver hit the API to calculate its own previews (as it does currently for image thumbnails). We can then extend/optimise this to option 4 as a special extra if needed.</p> -<h2 id="api"><a class="header" href="#api">API</a></h2> -<pre><code>GET /_matrix/media/r0/preview_url?url=http://wherever.com -200 OK -{ - "og:type" : "article" - "og:url" : "https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/684074366691356672" - "og:title" : "Matrix on Twitter" - "og:image" : "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/500400952029888512/yI0qtFi7_400x400.png" - "og:description" : "“Synapse 0.12 is out! Lots of polishing, performance &amp;amp; bugfixes: /sync API, /r0 prefix, fulltext search, 3PID invites https://t.co/5alhXLLEGP”" - "og:site_name" : "Twitter" -} -</code></pre> -<ul> -<li>Downloads the URL -<ul> -<li>If HTML, just stores it in RAM and parses it for OG meta tags -<ul> -<li>Download any media OG meta tags to the media repo, and refer to them in the OG via mxc:// URIs.</li> -</ul> -</li> -<li>If a media filetype we know we can thumbnail: store it on disk, and hand it to the thumbnailer. 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