#dev 2023-02-24

2023-02-24 UTC
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[tantek] sure, to Mastodon, that's my point. This is a quirk of Mastodon's inbound federation support
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[tantek] regardless of whether it comes from BF or directly from a personal site like aaronpk's
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[tantek] seems like the current theory (e.g. from aaronpk's example) is that a Mastodon requires an AS2 hashtag entry to at least have: "type": "Hashtag",
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[tantek] unknown if it also needs an href (though possibly, in order to replace the tag link in the content with an instance-local tag link)
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[tantek] per the example I think gRegor put in this tool: https://jsoneditoronline.org/#left=cloud.9fd6fbf12ec94c70983258c6d7ba3087
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gRegor Yeah, and the spec issues I linked yesterday
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gRegor https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2023-02-23#t1677128110300500
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gRegor May not be AP spec like I said there, though. In the AP #235 discussion cwebber said it would be an independent extension (of AS2, I think?).
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gRegor Regardless, it does not appear to be standardized yet, but what Mastodon implemented.
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gRegor These are the type of things I was going to summarize
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@luctielen ↩️ I want to look into webmentions for mine, but idk how hard that is going to be. (twitter.com/_/status/1629017992368357378)
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[aciccarello] [capjamesg] I'm looking at updating the docs on webmention.app (at least in my fork). I saw you had opened this issue and was wondering if could clarify what you initially tried/expected. https://github.com/remy/wm/issues/43
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Loqi [preview] [capjamesg] #43 Add new guidance to "How to integrate with Netlify" section of the documentation
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[aciccarello] Would this answer the questions you had? https://github.com/remy/wm/compare/master...aciccarello:wm:improve-netlify-docs
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aaronpk hmm, thoughts about this? https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io/issues/186
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Loqi [preview] [caseywatts] #186 Ignore Query Parameters?
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[snarfed] definitely can't just drop them all since they're meaningful on some sites
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[snarfed] ?
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[snarfed] I guess you could special case tracking params like utm_*
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aaronpk yeah it's a weird one
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[snarfed] or I think you could reasonably decline. wm target values aren't really the best place to do that kind of URL cleanup
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[snarfed] (or source values)
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sknebel well you could offer a switch for the api to ignore all for sites that know they can be ignored
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sknebel although it feels like they should(TM) be cleaned up earlier....
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sknebel but I guess thats difficult for wm.io which can't know
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[aciccarello] Is there any way currently to query those mentions if you don't know the exact query params?
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aaronpk right now there's nothing special about query parameters, a URL is a string and may or may not have query params
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[aciccarello] Maybe webmention sending should check for the canonical url?
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sknebel sending needs to send the url as it appears on the page
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sknebel verification could, *if* it can know the canoncial url (easy if the endpoint is integrated with the site or the site redirects, harder otherwise), store the mapping to the canonical url
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[tantek] ignoring query params would/could be a different API
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[tantek] e.g. targetprefix=
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[tantek] that way the caller could decide if they care about extra stuff on the end of the URL or not
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[tantek] better to keep 'target' pretty strict though as in that precise URL
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[tantek] target= that is, as the API param to wm io
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aaronpk hmm actually i think i've gotten that prefix request before too
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[schmarty] this was a fun and terrifying read! https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension
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aaronpk wow
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gRegor yikes
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[aciccarello] I've wondered how much damage extensions could do
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[aciccarello] Might be time to review who maintains the ones I use 🤔
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aaronpk this is why if you publish an extension and it has any level of popularity, you immediately start getting emails asking if you'll sell it
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[snarfed] mobile apps too
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aaronpk less so on iOS but yes
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