Recommend that clients don't preview URLs in encrypted rooms #2343
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Any stronger of a recommendation would probably require a MSC due to the behaviour change. Fixes #2120
richvdh
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| Clients should consider avoiding this endpoint for URLs posted in encrypted | |||
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| rooms. Encrypted rooms often contain more sensitive information the users | |||
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I would simply have said "... to avoid leaking URLs to the homeserver", but this is fine.
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fair, I'm a verbose person :|
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Any stronger of a recommendation would probably require a MSC due to the behaviour change.
Fixes #2120