I've been trying to figure out why GNU Social won't talk to Misskey. The link to webfinger in Misskey's host-meta file does not have a rel attribute, so GNU Social ignores it in LRDDMethod_HostMeta. I've filed a bug with Misskey regarding this. LRDDMethod_WebFinger tries to use /.well-known/webfinger directly without looking it up, but this method only supports the acct scheme, whereas LRDDMethod_HostMeta also supports http(s). GNU Social needs to perform discovery on http(s) URIs to be able to follow an account on Misskey (or Mastodon), so when LRDDMethod_HostMeta fails, it ends up giving up.
WebFinger is neutral regarding the scheme of such a
URI: it could be an "acct" URI [18], an "http" or "https" URI, a
"mailto" URI [19], or some other scheme.
RFC 7033
I've been trying to figure out why GNU Social won't talk to Misskey. The link to webfinger in Misskey's `host-meta` file does not have a `rel` attribute, so GNU Social ignores it in `LRDDMethod_HostMeta`. I've filed a bug with Misskey regarding this. `LRDDMethod_WebFinger` tries to use `/.well-known/webfinger` directly without looking it up, but this method only supports the `acct` scheme, whereas `LRDDMethod_HostMeta` also supports http(s). GNU Social needs to perform discovery on http(s) URIs to be able to follow an account on Misskey (or Mastodon), so when `LRDDMethod_HostMeta` fails, it ends up giving up.
```
WebFinger is neutral regarding the scheme of such a
URI: it could be an "acct" URI [18], an "http" or "https" URI, a
"mailto" URI [19], or some other scheme.
```
- RFC 7033
Diogo Cordeiro
I've been trying to figure out why GNU Social won't talk to Misskey. The link to webfinger in Misskey's
host-metafile does not have arelattribute, so GNU Social ignores it inLRDDMethod_HostMeta. I've filed a bug with Misskey regarding this.LRDDMethod_WebFingertries to use/.well-known/webfingerdirectly without looking it up, but this method only supports theacctscheme, whereasLRDDMethod_HostMetaalso supports http(s). GNU Social needs to perform discovery on http(s) URIs to be able to follow an account on Misskey (or Mastodon), so whenLRDDMethod_HostMetafails, it ends up giving up.Closing given that this was merged: https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/pulls/279 . Again, thank you for this MR. It will be applied to v3 as well.