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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-08-28 03:43:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-08-28 03:43:19 +0200 |
| commit | ce4e10c4b8bd9c66c375c3a5d5c18d8552655775 (patch) | |
| tree | d72429e99d5a4eb8e6d59d9d41a004aae4cb70e7 /packages/meshbay-common/src | |
| parent | e1f1b65cfac031096e4bae24ccf102ca0dbb86d9 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-ce4e10c4b8bd9c66c375c3a5d5c18d8552655775.tar.gz | |
feat(chat): link previews for pasted URLs
Paste an http(s) link in a group's chat and it unfurls into an OpenGraph
card — title, description, site name, and image — the way WhatsApp/Signal/
Slack do it.
The fetch is the node's, never the browser's or the hub's. The browser
cannot: a strict img-src/connect-src and CORS block it, and a direct fetch
would leak every reader's IP to the linked host on each render. The hub must
not touch group content (draft-v6 §2.5). The node already fetches third-party
metadata for the Videos and Music apps, over the same authorised path.
Flow mirrors media_meta_req: the client sends `link_preview_req {url}`, the
node replies `link_preview_resp` with the card fields (or `ok: false`), and
any OG image is stored under its blake3 in the existing media_cache thumb
store — the client then fetches it via the normal file_req path, exactly like
a poster. Nothing durable is added: the card text lives in a bounded in-memory
TTL cache on the node (draft-v6 §2.7 — enrichment on demand, the asking device
caches), and MNP goes 0.11 → 0.12 (additive: an older node logs "unknown type"
and the client shows the bare link).
Because the URL is chosen by a *member* and triggers an outbound request from
the operator's machine, `linkpreview.safe_url` is an SSRF gate: http(s) only,
no credentials, and every resolved address must be globally routable — no
loopback, private, link-local, multicast or reserved range, cloud-metadata
included. Redirects are followed by hand so each hop is re-checked. Residual,
documented in the module: DNS rebinding between the check and connect, closed
properly by pinning the checked IP — a follow-up.
Also fixes a long-standing chat annoyance the preview cards made worse:
opening the Chat tab landed a screen or two above the newest message because
the scroll-to-bottom ran before attachment thumbnails and (now) preview cards
had loaded and grown the content. A ResizeObserver keeps the view pinned to
the bottom through late content growth, and does nothing once the reader
scrolls up.
Tests: test_linkpreview.py (the SSRF gate and the OpenGraph parse, incl.
redirect re-validation and image downscaling) and test_link_preview_request.py
(reply shape, the media_cache image round-trip, the result cache).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gKJ85aZyvEwarXMFzFEwi
Diffstat (limited to 'packages/meshbay-common/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py index 0ca0005..1f82f88 100644 --- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py +++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py @@ -49,5 +49,8 @@ __version__ = "0.7.0" # *set*, replaced whole in one signed op — a photo library is routinely # scattered across several folders, not one. Additive: an older client # never sends the op and never expects either field. -MNP_VERSION = "0.11" +# 0.12: added `link_preview_req`/`link_preview_resp` — the node unfurls a URL +# pasted in chat into an OpenGraph card. Additive: an older node logs "unknown +# type" and the client just shows the bare link, as it always did. +MNP_VERSION = "0.12" MHP_VERSION = "0.1" diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py index dd377e7..d4e3ccd 100644 --- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py +++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ class MNP: CHAT_ATTACHMENT = "chat_attach" # attachment metadata CHAT_HISTORY = "chat_hist" # request message history (newest, or before a cursor) CHAT_HISTORY_RESPONSE = "chat_hist_resp" # history response with messages + # Link unfurl: the node fetches a URL a member pasted and returns an + # OpenGraph card. Additive (0.12) — an older node just logs "unknown type" + # and the client shows the bare link, exactly as before. + LINK_PREVIEW_REQ = "link_preview_req" # client → node: unfurl this URL + LINK_PREVIEW_RESP = "link_preview_resp" # node → client: card fields, or ok:false # Liveness on an *already open* channel. A peer that goes away without # closing leaves a DataChannel that still reads as connected until the next # real request hangs, and there was no way to ask. This is not a discovery |