element-hq / element-hq/synapse

Skip URL previews of login pages

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A-URL-Preview O-Occasional S-Tolerable T-Enhancement
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Description

This issue has been migrated from [#3440](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3440).

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### Description

URL previews of login pages or 401/403 aren't very useful. It would be nice if URL preview could have some logic to skip those. E.g. links to private google docs or sites needing login that aren't blacklisted.

Maybe even previews with transient error HTTP status codes (!= 200?) could have a way of requesting a refresh. With some sort of rate limit to prevent DoS.

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