Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Link Metadata

Goffi <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:10:40 +0100

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Le vendredi 6 février 2026, 12:08:00 heure normale d’Europe centrale Daniel 
Gultsch a écrit :
> The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP.
> 
> Title: Link Metadata
> Abstract:
> This specification describes how to attach metadata for links to a
> message.
> 
> URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/link-metadata.html
> 
> The Council will decide in the next two weeks whether to accept this
> proposal as an official XEP.
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Hello,

Thanks for this proposal, I like it and was hopping for something like that 
for a while.

2 remarks:

- "his metadata is commonly generated from the resource that can be retreived 
from the resource that can be found at the IRI," ==> it seems that there is an 
error in this sentence, the repetition of "generated/retreived from the 
resource". Also there is a typo, it's "retrieved".

- the main issue I see with this proposal is that the sender can send fake 
preview for malicious website, like sending a link to "evil.example.com" and 
the preview say "it's kitties pictures". I don't think that this can really be 
avoided, but a mention of that in security considerations would be good. Maybe 
the receiving client should show a small warning about that?

With my council hat, I'm +1 on it.

Best,
Goffi

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