#dev 2023-12-15

2023-12-15 UTC
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angelo i receive a 200 with the HTML for their 404 whether i sign or not
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[snarfed] interesting
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[snarfed] and you're including an Accept header with AS2 conneg?
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angelo i am using Accept:application/activity+json -- lines 36-85 includes the request and the same patch to httpsig you have in your fork: https://ragt.ag/code/projects/webint-owner/files/webint_owner/__init__.py
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Loqi [preview] Angelo Gladding
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c​apjamesg You can link to lines!
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c​apjamesg https://ragt.ag/code/projects/webint-owner/files/webint_owner/__init__.py#36
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[snarfed] angelo 🤷 got me. when I `activitypub.signed_get('https://www.threads.net/ap/users/0xjessel/')` with this BF code at head, it works for me. https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/blob/44056bee8a0fb2e8348b69a9187ebe1377a7cdcd/activitypub.py#L460-L537
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angelo thanks snarfed. i'm seeing a couple of differences.
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[tantek] fascinating, the full content of a Threads post is in the HTML in the meta property="og:description" looks like, at least on the Adam M. post announcing their support for federating out
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[tantek] that should mean that a metaformats parser should be able to pick up the full content
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[tantek] !tell capjamesg as promised, next steps for your "simple" auto-text UI is to make it into a very minimal notes posting client for Micropub:
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[tantek] 1. add a "Sign-in" button which when clicked does an IndieAuth relying party flow (see Web Sign-in page for sample UX)
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[tantek] 2. if sign-in was successful, change the "Sign-in" button to an "Enable Micropub" button, which, when clicked, does Micropub server discovery on the aforementioned IndieAuth URL, and attempts getting Micropub client publishing (create) permission,
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[tantek] 3. if permission was granted, change the "Enable Micropub" button to a "Publish" button, which when clicked, publishes the value of the text field as a note via Micropub
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[tantek] I believe aaronpk has a short video presentation about how to do implement this flow quickly
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c​apjamesg [tantek] https://jamesg.blog/2023/12/15/auto-write/
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Loqi [preview] Building a personal predictive text engine
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c​apjamesg Not sure if that is a Gift Calendar thing 😄
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[tantek] It definitely counts as a gift calendar thing because you released the open source for other IndieWeb developers to add it to their own site!
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[tantek] capjamesg, it's a 🛠 :) see https://indieweb.org/2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar#Emoji_gift_kinds
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[tantek] And link to your blog post from the calendar square obv
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[tantek] Put it before the existing 🎁 with an <hr/> between
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c​apjamesg Let me know how that looks.
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c​apjamesg 🤦
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c​apjamesg I'm confused.
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sknebel looks ok now
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[tantek] No, put the 🎁 back!
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[tantek] don't delete an existing 🎁 unless it's one you put there to replace
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c​apjamesg Done.
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[tantek] It's a 🛠 entry not a 📜 entry because the gift is the code, not the blog post. The blog post is "about" the gift
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[tantek] One last nit, since you "unwrapped" your gift first, put it *before* the existing 🎁
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[tantek] They're roughly by time order within the day
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[tantek] I should document that detail.
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Loqi I agree
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[tantek] And then the link text should be the thing, not the blog post title
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[tantek] Eg: AutoWrite personal predictive text engine
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[tantek] Then a stylistic suggestion, so the emoji doesn't get left behind on the line by itself
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[tantek] 🛠&nbsp;[https://...
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c​apjamesg Can you do it? I'm very confused by this.
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[tantek] Which step is confusing?
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[tantek] Each of those fixes above is incremental and they can be done in any order
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[tantek] Except fix your s/ 📜 / 🛠 before the nbsp fix obviously :)
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aaronpk hm i'm just getting a redirect "unsupported browser" when trying to follow a threads.net user from my site
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[manton] If you missed the scrollback yesterday, the thing that tripped me up is Threads does require HTTP signatures.
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aaronpk yeah it's making a signed request
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[manton] And you’re trying for a supported account like mosseri?
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aaronpk yeah
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[schmarty] time to try on different user-agent strings 🎭
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aaronpk guess i can try to send what bridgy sends
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[manton] I usually send a user-agent of http://Micro.blog, but actually in this case I forgot to set it, so it’s probably being sent as “ruby” or something like that.
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aaronpk hm still no luck
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[manton] Wonder if Threads is picky about the signatures in some way that Mastodon isn’t.
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aaronpk probably
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[snarfed] aaronpk which request is returning unsupported browser for you? the inbox delivery POST?
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aaronpk no just fetching the profile
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aaronpk to discover the inbox
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[snarfed] ok. yeah oddly many people are seeing the same problem. but many others are working ok. 🤷
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aaronpk ok weird, when I try this in a more isolated code example it works
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aaronpk ohhh wait it's not the AP request that's failing, it's the webfinger request
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aaronpk webfinger--
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Loqi webfinger has -5 karma in this channel over the last year (-7 in all channels)
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aaronpk does this mean they implemented AP without webfinger?
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aaronpk ok progress.... now the actual follow request to the inbox is being rejected
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angelo aaronpk do you know what you changed in your isolated code example?
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aaronpk no, and i'm only half paying attention right now too
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[snarfed] they're definitely serving webfinger. again, I've only seen three accounts so far - mosseri, 0xjessel, christophersu - but it's working for me in both curl and BF
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aaronpk guess i should look at what is being signed
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[manton] I got a reply from christophersu on Threads too, saying they will improve the HTTP status codes. Slow rollout makes sense but can definitely make troubleshooting confusing.
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[manton] I’d be really curious how much ActivityPub traffic Threads is already generating across the fediverse.
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aaronpk yeah i don't know what i'm doing wrong
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aaronpk [snarfed] or [manton]: do you have an example of the Follow request you're sending somewhere?
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aaronpk i havent touched this ActivityPub code in several years so I might be out of date with the current version of mastodon and relying on some sort of mastodon backcompat at this point
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[manton] Not readily available but I can dig something up. Actually, I haven’t 100% confirmed that following is working. I just assumed it was after I discovered the user, need to double-check the responses.
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[snarfed] aaronpk here's Bridgy Fed's follow AS2: https://gist.github.com/snarfed/e96d1a75df87109530d2754df7dce722
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aaronpk thx
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aaronpk that's so weird, i'm getting a 200 response but it's full of HTML
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[snarfed] to which request? inbox delivery of your Follow?
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aaronpk yeah
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aaronpk if i don't include the httpsig then I get an HTTP 400 error and the HTML page says "5xx server error" 😂
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aaronpk but interestingly if i include an invalid signature i get the same 200 response and full HTML page
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[snarfed] interesting indeed. I got 200 with Content-Type: application/activity+json; charset=utf-8 back
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[tantek] APwithoutWebfinger++
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Loqi APwithoutWebfinger has 1 karma over the last year
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GWG capjamesg: Have an on topic question for you. Ticketing + Social WG... thoughts?
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GWG I need to fix photo updates for Micropub for WordPress during my next round of attention on that...
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GWG aaronpk: Is there a way for OYS to convert Swarm likes to website likes?
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aaronpk what is a website like?
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GWG aaronpk: As in, map Swarm users to their Indieweb sites if applicable?
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GWG I just had one
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aaronpk it does that if they are also an ownyourswarm user
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aaronpk if not, then it's too noisy, because people put all sorts of things in their website field on social networks and it becomes a mess
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[tantek] ^ that's a good filter
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GWG aaronpk: Okay, that explains the person who liked me not being transformed
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GWG I always get a lot of thoughts because I usually only use OwnYourSwarm as a travel report generator. Need a check-in Micropub app that can query my venue database. IndiePass used to, but I need to figure out what happened and maybe file a bug report if it isn't on my side