#[manton]Micro.blog doesn't attempt to normalize anything to https in the token endpoint, but that domain does redirect to https. Signing in with the https version should fix it.
#Loqi[manton]: [eddie] left you a message 20 hours, 40 minutes ago: There is a discussion in the IndieWeb channel about an error with a Micro.blog site and Aperture. https://chat.indieweb.org/2018-12-16#t1544997797573400 The error seems to say that the Micro.blog token is returning http rather than https, I'm wondering if that needs to be updated on M.b IndieAuth
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#[manton]I often err on the side of not enforcing https because so many things can go wrong with people's domain name configuration and SSL. Micro.blog does connect to someone's blog and verify that SSL is working, though, so I could default to https here if that verification passed.
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#sknebel[manton]: they said they tried logging in with https
#aaronpk[manton]: the problem is with the URL that the token endpoint is returning in response to checking a token. micro.blog appears to always respond with http.
#jgmac1106..yeah going to do that with my publication feed…just thinking about how I could subscribe to a vita….must admint I don’t have the patience to add mf2 to APA the way you do
#KartikPrabhuI did it once by hand and rest is copy-paste from there. though it needs some cleanup
#[jgmac1106]...keep trying to get someone to help build us a citation builder...has to be done by hand...but want to be able to select citation style and get the HTMl putput with mf2 included
#[jgmac1106]@kartikprabhu and to me this shows a great examples of an h-feed as a collection...though I guess there isn't a post for each paper on ypur website so collection def doesn
#Loqi[Greg McVerry] Thanks @smokey...yeah I love planets. Every community should have one. I need to get somebody to help me build one using a social reader for my classes in January.
#aaronpkright now that front-end is Monocle. i've been considering pulling out just the public part into its own project that would be easily installable on shared hosting and you could point it at a channel in any microsub server
#[jgmac1106]...yeah tried wrapping entire thing in an iframe to no avail
#[manton][sknebel] [aaronpk] Micro.blog does not modify the client_id. It generates a token and stores it with whatever the client_id passed in was.
#aaronpkThis is the users profile url not the client ID
#aaronpkif you can make me a test account I can point a subdomain to that's configured with both http and https I would be happy to try to reproduce this
#[manton]Sorry, the "me" parameter, right? Same thing, it doesn't modify it. It literally returns exactly what was passed.
#[manton]After it verifies that it matches the code, etc.
#aaronpkOk then I'll need to step through this yo track down what's actually happening, I was just going off what was described as the problem
#aaronpkcould you set me up with a new test blog with a custom domain?
#[manton]Sure. Did you want to test with your own subdomain or a something.micro.blog?
#[manton]I should set this up too for testing. Definitely want to fix it if there's an issue! Just seems like we would've noticed something wrong with other IndieAuth apps too.
#aaronpkMonocle/Aperture is a little different because of how the parts relate to each other. Normally an app can use the "me" as the account without any checks. But in this case Aperture is expecting a particular account already when it's verifying the token.
#aaronpkThe other thing that should fix this is if micro.blog redirected http to https when https was enabled, so that it isn't serving two copies of the site
#[manton]Yeah, in this case it is redirecting to https. But it's not forcing https on the "me" if someone types in http when signing in.
#aaronpkOk cool subdomain is configured now, DNS will take about 30 minutes
#[jgmac1106]well since you are playing with tokens...you two fix this and the get going at adding IndieAuth so I don't have to check my email anymore...mmmkay
#aaronpkooh i didn't know you could create new ones
#mblaneyaaronpk yup it's just setting up the reader and then making the page public
#mblaney("just".... it could be a little easier to use :-/ )
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#[jgmac1106][manton] and [aaronpk] really the expectation should be for the user to not type either http:// or https:// and just type jgregorymcverry.com
#aaronpkof course, and that's what should be happening right now as long as the site is configured to redirect http to https.
#aaronpkthe problem is when a site does not redirect then it appears to be two different sites, and if the user types in http one time and https the next time, or if the site reports the URL as one or the other, then there is the confusion
#aaronpkthese days i actually type in "aaronpk.com" when I log in to things, because that is easier to type and it redirects properly to "https://aaronparecki.com"
#[jgmac1106]@mblaney this is perfect, this all I need for class..we just turn indiepay.me into indiebadge.me and I am almost all set
#[jgmac1106]....though just realize you can't have students work on a website for a year and then make them start over...will have a WordPress cohort
#[jgmac1106]I mean just the planet...will stick in student blogs...not enough time between semesters to think that big..and enjoy the holidays
#mblaneyyeah I just meant for the planet too, either way
#jgmac1106…I am too close to be being done…on migration as well….didn’t even think about unicyclic and dobrado.
#jgmac1106will zap an email…been sitting at my computer for too many hours with a goal to finish something I haven’t satrted…just need to add a flexbox of circles to my resume
#[jgmac1106]!tell chrisburnell you might be interested in https://unicyclic.com with your effort to add microformats to your learning platform....
#jgmac1106too tired figure out…back at it in morning
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#mblaneydamn I wrote some image resizing code a while ago to deal with grantcode's high res images, but it failed to run because it couldn't match the image type. next time grant.... next time.
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#jackyaaronpk: regarding redirects; that's something I've been very careful with; to keep going down until I get a 2xx code
#sknebeljacky: note that IndieAuth has specific rules for doing this (e.g. temporary redirects are followed for discovery, but do *not* update the url)
#jackylike not to update the URI provided by the user?
#Loqi[[jgmac1106]] ...keep trying to get someone to help build us a citation builder...has to be done by hand...but want to be able to select citation style and get the HTMl putput with mf2 included
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#[jgmac1106]@zegnat, perfect If I build the HTML form fields for each type and then map the mf2 to each citation would that be enough?
#jgmac1106!tell KartikPrahbu we tested soooo many BibTex exports and web scrapers…huge garbage in, garbage out problem. Has ro be manual form entry. @cjwillcock is playing twith hypothes.is APi to see if highlighting can be used for entry……he wait
#jgmac1106I reached out to Zotero team, they are happy with Dublin Core for metadata, I couldn’t figure out how to inject the mf2…buit after decades of all the citation tools keep coming back to manual iuntil it hurts
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#[kevinmarks]Yes, bookmark of a fragmention is a highlight/excerpt
#sknebeljgmac1106: I mean adding an output to it, not having it parse mf2
#sknebeljgmac1106: maybe it'd even be possible to do something with their weird citation styling language, although I guess some things like "authors have URLs" aren't expected in their view of the world
#sknebelbut reusing the data extraction bits from an existing system would probably be helpful
#jgmac1106I would want an optional author url for the h-card
#sknebel(e.g. I tried zbib with one of my papers which was published at ACM and it at least clearly figured out the individual authors instead of only one large string from bibtex)
#jgmac1106here is my problem with all thigns zotero..I never understand their licensing, if it is OSS, and if so where they keep it all
#aaronpki might end up switching into a mode where the server keeps only the posts that are in the current snapshot of the page instead of trying to apply additional logic
#sknebelwonder if pinned posts shouldn't be outside the feed (if there is an explicit feed)
#aaronpki dunno, because if you subscribe to it the first time, you'd want that post to appear probably
#[jgmac1106]can you make it if a pinned post is read or clicked on it would dissapear and not reappear next time it is polled?
#sknebelit should be in the feed at it's "original" location maybe
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#[jgmac1106]If I add u-featured in an image above content should it show in Aperture/Indigenous?
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#[eddie]Hmmm good question. It definitely would not in Indigneous for iOS. Although I am curious if Aperture/XRay parses and presents that in the data object, because if so, then it's on the clients
#swentelbut like eddie says, if it's on the object, then yeah, then it's on the client. I'm secretely hoping it's just the first image in the array :)
#[eddie]Oh it definitely won't be the first image in the array
#[eddie]it anything it would be parsed into the featured property
#aaronpkyeah "featured" is something very different from the normal "photo" property
#aaronpkand should be presented in apps differently too
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#ZegnatOr not be presented at all, I'm guessing. As they are sort of meant to be cover art, if the reader isn't very graphical foregoing the feature image seems like a valid choice?
#ZegnatE.g. if the image is critical for the post, it should be the post content and not just a featured image
#[jgmac1106]I ignore all SEO tricks accept my featured img. I figured u-featured is IndieWeb version of Open Graph
#[jgmac1106]Plus I put time into curating or remixing my images... That's my problem with the entire CSS/HTML img debate
#[jgmac1106]I can't separate Design from meaning. I put time into remixing images or curating artists. But yes leave it on the client... Or better yet ask user
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#[jgmac1106]Though as I learn CSS Grid I can drop many of my hacky background img tricks
#Zegnat“I figured u-featured is IndieWeb version of Open Graph” - I don’t understand
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#jgmac1106[zegnat] as in basically all anyone cares about with OG is making there picture appear in feeds, facebook, twitter, linkedin…They really don’t care about any of the other metadat..it just goes along for the ride. I assumed in social readers this was purpose of u-featured…or atleast one use case.
#jgmac1106but for folks such as your self who live by a “show me only words and if you try javascript I cut you…” mantra…you should be able to toggle it on and off in a reader
#ZegnatCurrently I believe very few of the RSS feeds I subscribe to ever include the feature images they would use on the website. And I am all the happier for it
#jgmac1106exactly lets design for a world that makes everyone happy
#jgmac1106show featured img yes or no on radial button
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#[eddie]I do think featured image is something that will be nice to use in some readers, I think there are few enough cases of it, that it is one of the later features to be added to readers probably
#jgmac1106for me it’s not just the conversion rates…the reason the imgs work for lasting impressions in SEO is rally marketing to how the brain learns. If I need students to retain things I include images
#ZegnatIf the images have a specific purpose within the post, I’d argue they shouldn’t be *just* feature images. Should be included in the content.
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#[eddie]Agreed. Featured images should be ornamental (or in the case of multi-photo posts, a duplicate of an existing photo already in the photos array)
#[eddie]Anything in featured should always be seen as optional upgrades
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#[jgmac1106]okay...interesting...coming from a WP world people would never do that as you just see the same img twice
#[jgmac1106]you put your most important img in the featured img post, the one pic that is the essence of your post..It isn't ornamental it a summary a visual version of p-summary
#[jgmac1106]and if you put a featured img and then the same image on WP themes it usually creates two of the same images stacked....so msot people default to featured
#[schmarty][jgmac1106] that sounds like a limitation of wordpress as a CMS. there is nothing to stop you having a photo in the content of a post and marking it up as u-featured.
#jgmac1106u-photo will POSSE to Twitter and no silos recognize u-featured, but thanks everyone getting picture now…yeah [schmarty] each theme plays a little different but most just take featured imag and display in conent and copy the link to OG….
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#jgmac1106thanks for conversation all…Still think u-featured should be the #IndieWeb answer to open graph and the first img with u-featured in or out of content should be included with the feed reader as the author is saying “feature this” and the client can say, “no” or empower user to say “yes or no”
#ZegnatFeature image (in mf2 parlance) is more like those big (sometimes blurred) images that are used as backgrounds for headers. Or a (clickbait-y) thumbnail to display along a title in a list of titles. If WordPress uses the same term but to mean something is the main image adding value to the rest of the content, that would mean we sadly have two meanings for the word :(
#Zegnatmf2 feature is the same as the OpenGraph one, for those articles who just link a special OpenGraph picture in a hidden metatag. I.e. it isn’t assumed that the preview picture is also meant to be content, it just illustrates the content in some way
#jgmac1106there are value judgements and what you write, yes people use hero images for clickbaity stuff,as I said it works becasue that is how brain learns, but for many of us those featured images are part of the post indicating as much meaning as the title
#gkbrkI've been on and off the indieweb wiki for some time, and today I decided to add webmention support to my website. Does anyone have any issues with getting webmention or pingback spam?
#jgmac1106I get then they should be in content, going to move it. I mean reader behaivor. If I include a u-feature I want to trigger the img be included in the feed
#jgmac1106gkbrk: [aaronpk] just posted the first article we have really found..haven’t found any yet…but as things grow
#ZegnatThe first one was just an interesting interaction from a adult service website apparently implementing Webmentions. (Didn’t the post even talk about web tech?!) Them removing the offsite link to adactio is sad. Otherwise it would have been a great example of how every blog (and business!) can send webmentions
#gkbrkmy comments section gets manual approval for each post, if I do the same for pingbacks I assume it will be better
#jgmac1106ohh if you have moderation then job is done
#Zegnat“if you have moderation then job is done” - unless you get flooded with pingbacks and you start not always approving real comments because of the volume
#ZegnatI think GWG has talked about that possibly being a problem
#gkbrkalso I noticed that the firefox extension for webmentions disappeared
#jgmac1106yes history of pingback spam is known was hoping reduction of page rank would remove this..but alas
#ZegnatThere was a firefox extension? Did anyone use that? I just helped revive the rel-me extension, I would be willing to do the same for a webmention extension!
#gkbrkI hope more people used similar stuff, I normally used refbacks for my website but with more and more people blocking referer headers it's getting harder to use
#gkbrkshort of making your own web crawler or paying a company lots of money to monitor your backlinks, webmention/pingback seem like decent solutions
#gkbrkIf that doesn't work I'll probably make my own crawler/extension/proxy to automatically look for pingback/webmention endpoints and send it
#ZegnatHmm, that repo isn’t clearly licensed. So I don’t feel good about reviving it :/
#gkbrkA new one might work better, I don't think it will be too much code honestly
#[eddie]jgmac1106: Yeah I think u-featured is a great way to suggest the presentation of an image in reader clients. I think we're in agreement. Just know unlike u-photo, u-featured won't ALWAYS be included, but in the long-run it'll be nice when readers have a nice presentation for u-featured