#wordpress 2022-10-16

2022-10-16 UTC
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[hollie] I'm having trouble with Indie Auth. I followed the instructions (creating rel=me links) when I had a basic HTML page up. It worked fine. I tried doing the same thing (created HTML list of same rel=me links in sidebar) when I installed ClassicPress. When I run it through indiewebify.me it says they don't "link back"? I tried installing the Indie Auth plug-in - it's active but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. And I don't
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[hollie] know what the settings mean (what's "default token expiration time" or "endpoints"?). I think I'm following all the instructions right - any ideas?
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GWG [hollie]: Rel me is if you use an external indieauth service...in the plugin..it is built in
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GWG It does it all for you
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[hollie] But if the plug-in is active, shouldn't indiewebify.me tell me that it works?
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GWG Indiewebify.me test indieauth? I thought it only tested rel me?
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GWG Let me look
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GWG You should be able to test it using https://indielogin.com/
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Loqi yea
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[hollie] If that's the case, I'm sorry - I thought that was where you went to see if your website was functioning within IndieWeb specifications. It says it's a "guide to getting on the IndieWeb"
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GWG Yes, but it doesn't test for everything.. I should propose it test indieauth
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[hollie] Okay, thanks! It works on the indielogin.com site.
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GWG Proposed we have the websignin test search for indieauth endpoints too
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GWG Another opportunity
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[hollie] What is an endpoint?
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Loqi An endpoint is a URL for an application to communicate with to make something happen https://indieweb.org/endpoint
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GWG indielogin, by the way, is the service the wiki and such use to log you in...it uses websignin. Websignin is supposed to look for indieauth, and if no indieauth fall back on rel me
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GWG Essentially, Loqis definition aside... it's the thing you communicate with
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GWG So, a Webmention endpoint is the address on your site that receives Webmentions
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GWG An Indieauth endpoint is where clients go to authenticate via indieauth
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GWG It's the URL of the service
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GWG Indieauth and Webmention both add that into the HTML of your site so it can be discovered
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GWG So, you try to log in as example.com, the thing you are logging into goes to example.com to find in the HTML code the link to where example.com's indieauth service or endpoint is located
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GWG That's how we avoid impersonation...the site tells where it's identity can be checked