[image] Oneboxing of sites with hash (#) in URL not working Bug I’m pretty sure this used to onebox nicely with a highlighted line https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official/blob/master/lib/discourse_slack/slack.rb#L227 Works fine without th…

I looked into this issue and this is because Overwatch Forum is returning different headers when making HEAD request (instead of GET). ➜ ~ curl -I https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20758326009 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:57:32 GMT Server: Apache X…

This actually seems like a bug of Blizzard’s to me. The HEAD request is redirecting without remembering what the initial URL was supposed to be. I have seen other sites fail with a HEAD request, but usually they were small sites and not as big as Blizzard. I don’t think we should stop using HEAD s…

Blacklist is probably the way to go. Like @eviltrout , I’ve seen sites block HEAD, too. I think some naive site owners think HEAD is just for useless bots.

If HEAD is blocked it will try GET afterwards. The only problem here is if the site returns a HEAD response which is wrong :slight_smile:

Should be fixed by: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6cd8203686ac7c2584523394944fdbe905a5a21a Also I fixed images not showing in (will work at next onebox bump): https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/2c8f4c2d3e235cb26f344cb2d5a9e49ec824d1eb

It works :tm: [image] Overwatch Forums

Can't onebox Overwatch Forums topic

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) July 29, 2017, 1:05pm 2

This issue is not related to # in URL. Added on my list to look into.

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