URL previews are now working for WP Engine sites

For quite a while, Discourse has not been able to display URL previews for sites that are hosted on WP Engine. This was due to an overly broad security rule which accidentally blocked requests from the Discourse Onebox user agent.

I’m happy to report that this is no longer the case. Now, when you link to a URL hosted on WP Engine, your preview should be displayed just like this:

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