From ff553cc9dd4fe7c9203a7c4c414e5fa27348180a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
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
--
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