Stop Discourse leaking its Host IP adress when preloading links/ressources

[merefield (Robert)]

Might this help?

"Onebox Assistant", crawl for those previews reliably!

What it does [A woman in a straw hat and khaki shirt is using binoculars to observe something in a mountainous area, with a clipboard nearby. (Captioned by AI)] Turns this kind of result: [image] (where your server has failed to bring back the page source so cannot extract the required tags to build the onebox) Into this!: [image] It simply provides an alternative path for onebox to get its page source with which to look for meta-data when the target server refuses your connection. It …

It wasn’t built for exactly this (main goal was to improve reliability) but might be part of a solution as it’s essentially using a proxy service.