# Discourse Link previews through a proxy server?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-link-previews-through-a-proxy-server/72720
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-link-previews-through-a-proxy-server/72720 "2017-10-25T01:34:34Z")
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### Author: ![imaBASKET](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/imabasket/32/72987_2.png) [@imaBASKET](https://meta.discourse.org/u/imaBASKET)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2018, 5:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-link-previews-through-a-proxy-server/72720/24 "2018-08-12T05:19:45Z")

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Is it not possible to disable discourse’s parsing of these images/urls that cause the IP leak of the origin server?

Or at least make it so there is a whitelist of a certain set of domains that will be parsed?

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