Discourse: Amazon not oneboxing?

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This might be a transitional issue, but today I was trying to share a link to an Amazon item and the onebox preview gave me a sad face and reported a 503:

Sorry, we were unable to generate a preview for this web page, because the web server returned an error code of 503. Instead of a preview, only a link will appear in your post. :cry:

I tried a few Amazon links to the same effect.

Anyone have any clues as to what’s up with this? Is there a “right” way to share links to Amazon? I’m guessing it’s related to Amazon not liking the Discourse preview fetcher user-agent or something, but I don’t know how to internet so I really have no idea.

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Confirmed. I wonder if they blocked the hosted discourse IP space (since we’re hosted with them). I’ll bring it up. Thanks for the head’s up!

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This should be resolved now.

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It works! Thanks @orenwolf!

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Really, thanks the awesome folks at Discourse. I’m just the messenger. :slight_smile:

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In that case, thanks @codinghorror and team!

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