@mariusor This page doesn't respond with ActivityPub object to request with AP or AS Accept header (I get HTML instead). Is there a way to get object ID from it?

@silverpill I'm using the mechanism Mastodon popularized.

Basically BrutaLinks is just a (mostly) dumb client on top of a server that only serves ActivityPub objects (that one is called FedBOX). It however exposes access to the underlying objects using the <link rel="alternate"> metadata.

@mariusor Got it, thanks. The public key of the actor looks unusual. Is it Ed25519 key?

"publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMCowBQYDK2VwAyEA/bFnzaLjNU/8apqKuRejNEtDS6wDmIYqd0rV7hunvDM=\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"

@silverpill yep. Another one of those small frictions with Mastodon, that doesn't support EC keys.

@mariusor Interesting. I'll update my server to accept PEM-encoded ed25519 keys. Do you know any other Fediverse software that supports EC keys?

I'm currently writing a FEP with a related topic: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/105/files. In this proposal, a different property is used to ensure compatibility with existing services.

> Do you know any other Fediverse software that supports EC keys?

@silverpill no, not on the top of my head. I think everyone should support it at least on the basis of much smaller size though.

And, as always when it comes to interop, crickets from the Mastodon devs: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21429#issuecomment-1549405785

@mariusor I sent a follow request to @marius, but haven't received an Accept activity yet. Something is wrong?

Delivery time is 2023-06-13T16:57:12Z

@silverpill federated.id doesn't accept follows automatically. It's in my inbox.

@marius

@silverpill I guess this one wasn't you. The time is different.

It means your follow didn't make it to my inbox. What client/service did you sent it from?

@mariusor I sent it from this account.
The server is running Mitra, it's the software I'm developing.

@silverpill if you could provide me with a verbatim request (including the sign header) I could try to see what's wrong. The strange part is that there's nothing in the logs for that specific period, not even at the http proxy level.

@mariusor I can't provide the full request, but I could say that it had RSA HTTP signature attached.

The inbox was https://federated.id/actors/8b740680-ccb4-4265-82e7-4ac2ca402750/inbox
And the response was 201 Created with empty body.

Here is my unsigned Follow activity:

{"@context":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams","https://w3id.org/security/
v1","https://w3id.org/security/data-integrity/v1",{"MitraJcsRsaSignature2022":"mitra:MitraJcsRsaSignature2022","mitra":"http://jsonld.mitra.social#","proofPurpose":"sec:pr
oofPurpose","proofValue":"sec:proofValue","sensitive":"as:sensitive","verificationMethod":"sec:verificationMethod"}],"actor":"https://mitra.social/users/silverpill","id":"
https://mitra.social/objects/0188b5b0-829e-aadd-be8d-a5f484fceb34","object":"https://federated.id/actors/8b740680-ccb4-4265-82e7-4ac2ca402750","to":["https://federated.id/
actors/8b740680-ccb4-4265-82e7-4ac2ca402750"],"type":"Follow"}

@silverpill so I did find it in storage, but something went wrong when dispatching it to the proper inbox. I'll create a test-case from it to check what happened. TY!

@mariusor I tried it again today, now the server returns status 500 Internal Server Error and there's a detailed error report with these messages:

Can't save activity Follow to inbox
jsonld: error calling MarshalJSON for type *activitypub.Actor: invalid character 'h' after object key:value pair

Any ideas what might cause that?

@silverpill thank you for keep trying, but this past week I've been doing a lot of reshuffling of the internals. I'm not surprised some things still fail.

Could you send me a link to a pastebin with the Activity? I'll add a bug report.

@mariusor Sure, here is my activity

HackLiberty.org PrivateBin

Visit this link to see the note. Giving the URL to anyone allows them to access the note, too.

HackLiberty.org PrivateBin (paste.hackliberty.org)

@silverpill I added a ticket here: https://todo.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/296

I will need to create a test-case for it, but I think I have all I need.

@mariusor I saw it had been closed and tried to send a Follow again to @ild@federated.id. This time there was no error, but I didn't receive Accept

Time: 2024-12-20T20:58:47+00:00

@silverpill@mitra.social @mariusor@metalhead.club apologies for butting in. I'd be interested in implementing ed25519 keys instead of RSA.

Backwards compatibility is a concern, however.