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---
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title: Room Version 4
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type: docs
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weight: 40
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---
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This room version builds on [version 3](v3.html) using a different
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encoding for event IDs.
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## Client considerations
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This room version changes the format form event IDs sent to clients.
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Clients should already be treating event IDs as opaque identifiers, and
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should not be concerned with the format of them. Clients should still
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encode the event ID when including it in a request path.
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Clients should expect to see event IDs changed from the format of
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`$randomstring:example.org` to something like
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`$Rqnc-F-dvnEYJTyHq_iKxU2bZ1CI92-kuZq3a5lr5Zg` (note the lack of
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domain).
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## Server implementation components
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Warning
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The information contained in this section is strictly for server
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implementors. Applications which use the Client-Server API are generally
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unaffected by the intricacies contained here. The section above
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regarding client considerations is the resource that Client-Server API
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use cases should reference.
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Room version 4 uses the same algorithms defined in [room version
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3](v3.html), however using URL-safe base64 to generate the event ID.
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### Event IDs
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Rationale
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Room version 3 generated event IDs that were difficult for client
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implementations which were not encoding the event ID to function in
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those rooms. It additionally raised concern due to the `/` character
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being interpretted differently by some reverse proxy software, and
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generally made administration harder.
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The event ID is the [reference
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hash](../server_server/%SERVER_RELEASE_LABEL%.html#reference-hashes) of
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the event encoded using a variation of [Unpadded
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Base64](../appendices.html#unpadded-base64) which replaces the 62nd and
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63rd characters with `-` and `_` instead of using `+` and `/`. This
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matches [RFC4648's definition of URL-safe
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base64](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-5). Event IDs are
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still prefixed with `$` and may result in looking like
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`$Rqnc-F-dvnEYJTyHq_iKxU2bZ1CI92-kuZq3a5lr5Zg`.
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Just like in room version 3, event IDs should not be sent over
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federation to servers when the room uses this room version. On the
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receiving end of an event, the server should compute the relevant event
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ID for itself. Room version 3 also changes the format of `auth_events`
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and `prev_events` in a PDU.
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{{definition\_ss\_pdu\_v4}}
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