From ff553cc9dd4fe7c9203a7c4c414e5fa27348180a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:26:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Alias lookups return a server list. --- docs/specification.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/specification.rst b/docs/specification.rst index f45c75fca9..e0609f7074 100644 --- a/docs/specification.rst +++ b/docs/specification.rst @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Each room can also have multiple "Room Aliases", which looks like:: #room_alias:domain .. TODO - - Need to specify precise grammar for Room IDs + - Need to specify precise grammar for Room Aliases A room alias "points" to a room ID and is the human-readable label by which rooms are publicised and discovered. The room ID the alias is pointing to can @@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ over time to point to a different room ID. For this reason, Clients SHOULD resolve the room alias to a room ID once and then use that ID on subsequent requests. +When resolving a room alias the server will also respond with a list of servers +that are in the room that can be used to join via. + :: GET