WP group actor ID URL encoded?

julian

Hi @pfefferle@mastodon.social, I was trying to figure out something else (which I'll ask in a separate topic), and then went down a rabbit-hole when I discovered I could no longer find @notiz.blog ( see, no link!)

NodeBB was unable to retrieve the Group actor because the webfinger response notes its' ID as https://notiz.blog/%40notiz.blog; note the %40. Possibly related, the actor self-reports its own ID as that value as well.

When NodeBB tried to fetch that via AP, WordPress returned HTML

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian that is why:

* https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/763
* https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2757

seems that I have to revert a PR!?

Matthias Pfefferle

@julian should work again

julian

@pfefferle@mastodon.social I'm frankly surprised I ran into a side effect of this so soon after you updated the site

Either the PR is to be reverted or perhaps WP should handle requests to the URL encoded address

But after briefing myself on the root cause, it does seem weird that there exist actors with unicode in their ID. Might be if that is the case you should disregard them as non-compliant, who knows.

cc @silverpill@mitra.social

silverpill

@julian @pfefferle ActivityPub spec says IDs are URIs, I think that means non-ascii characters should always be encoded.

Mitra rejects IDs that are not URIs, most of the time this doesn't cause any issues (WordPress was the only notable exception).