Oh nice! Following a #WordPress blog using #nodebb is working like a charm!Good job @julian #fediverse #activitypub

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian yes, couldn’t follow! It is @notiz.blog

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian and I have to debug comments... they seem to also be broken

Can you maybe give me a level where I can post more often?

julian

Hey @[email protected], I looked into it, and NodeBB can successfully resolve your instance actor via webfinger, but cannot make an S2S GET call to https://notiz.blog/@notiz.blog

I receive the following error:

{
"error":"This method requires an authenticated user"
}

julian

@[email protected] said:

Can you maybe give me a level where I can post more often?

Done! Your local account just needed a couple upvotes I think, so I did that now.

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian ok, comments seem to come through today... maybe a glitch or an issue with missing upvotes?

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian The HTML version (HTTP Request without Accept header) does redirect to the main page, but if you add the Accept header to get the JSON it will work even without signature. (I have not yet enabled AUTHORIZED_FETCH).

I ran some tests and it seems to work up to the Follow `Accept` response where I receive a 500 from the NodeBB inbox.

julian

@[email protected] any chance you could let me know the json you're sending during the Accept phase?

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian sure, I will send you a DM!

julian

@[email protected] ah sorry, NodeBB cannot accept DMs at this time. Any chance you can message @[email protected] ?

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian @devnull sure no problem!

oplik0

@[email protected] Should be fixed now in https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/700016649d25ee5bc6c3fa17e03003677d7f5b5d (not yet deployed here).

The issue was that apparently for the blog actor WP sent actor URI and not username@host - which AFAIK is perfectly valid, NodeBB just assumed the latter was always the case

Matthias Pfefferle

@oplik0 ah, maybe its that we use domain@domain as WebFinger ID?

julian

@[email protected] the NodeBB community is updated to include @oplik0's commit, so you can try again

oplik0

@[email protected] it was actually because of @ in actor IDs - the codepath for choosing a webfinger lookup over just accepting the URL as the ID only checked for its presence, and the code for webfinger lookups was only meant to run for the acct: protocol.

So yeah, not WP fault at all, just a combination of a bug and missing feature Now both should be fixed.