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author | Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org> | 2016-04-08 18:54:18 +0100 |
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committer | Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org> | 2016-04-08 18:54:18 +0100 |
commit | ec9331f85145aadb227e1030cf3de20ffe9a336c (patch) | |
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parent | Add url_preview_enabled config option to turn on/off preview_url endpoint. de... (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 6136e0c1fe..9d01244927 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu or Debian:: sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.7-dev libffi-dev \ python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 \ - libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev + libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev Installing prerequisites on ArchLinux:: @@ -557,6 +557,20 @@ as the primary means of identity and E2E encryption is not complete. As such, we are running a single identity server (https://matrix.org) at the current time. + +URL Previews +============ + +Synapse 0.15.0 introduces an experimental new API for previewing URLs at +/_matrix/media/r0/preview_url. This is disabled by default. To turn it on +you must enable the `url_preview_enabled: True` config parameter and explicitly +specify the IP ranges that Synapse is not allowed to spider for previewing in +the `url_preview_ip_range_blacklist` configuration parameter. This is critical +from a security perspective to stop arbitrary Matrix users spidering 'internal' +URLs on your network. At the very least we recommend that your loopback and +RFC1918 IP addresses are blacklisted. + + Password reset ============== |