I keep my forum’s server behind cloud flare due to a large amount of attacks against the site. The link previews and emails can leak the server’s backend IP Address. The email issue was resolved by setting up a SMTP relay that strips headers (if the user pulls email headers to get the IP, they get t…

Discourse Link previews through a proxy server?

schungx (Stephen Chung) October 25, 2017, 2:32am 4

Purely out of curiosity… How does previewing a link leak ip info?

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