"create post" does not propose title and body for a link post

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As in title. Create post -> link -> paste URL in URL -> nothing happens

I checked after someone else asked, so it’s not only me

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That seems to be related to piefed.zip. I checked on my instance, piefed.social and piefed.zip. Only piefed.zip didn’t fill in the metadata.

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Yes it will depend on the instance and on the URL.

To fill in the title and body PieFed needs to make a network request to the url, parse the returned html and find the title and body. Due to the web being fubar these days a lot of web hosts block network requests from data centres - it’s not consistent, everywhere does it differently.

It’s would be worth trying to do this network request using javascript on the client instead. Although there may be cross-origin security things that get in the way there which might be why it’s currently done on the server. I can’t remember.

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