Disable media federation

[catfromplan9]

Description:

When a remote media MXC is requested, provided this feature is enabled, redirect to the same resource on the homeserver it is hosted on. Do not mirror content.

I need this feature added to resolve the fact that malicious individuals are federating illegal content onto my private matrix homeserver and reporting it to my VPS.

An alternative would be to require an access token be passed when attempting to download remote media.

[dklimpel]

Are you looking for this?

• Add config option to prevent media downloads from listed domains. #15197

[catfromplan9]

Are you looking for this?

* [Add config option to prevent media downloads from listed domains. #15197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15197)

Yes, thanks

[catfromplan9]

Description:

When a remote media MXC is requested, provided this feature is enabled, redirect to the same resource on the homeserver it is hosted on. Do not mirror content.

I need this feature added to resolve the fact that malicious individuals are federating illegal content onto my private matrix homeserver and reporting it to my VPS.

An alternative would be to require an access token be passed when attempting to download remote media.

For now, I have implemented this by writing my own python webserver and adding nginx config option for proxying to it when applicable. It works fine on all the clients and I think merging the functionality into synapse as a toggleable feature would be great