Does anyone know of Mastodon servers that use outbound RFC9421 HTTP-Signatures ?
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Does anyone know of Mastodon servers that use outbound RFC9421 HTTP-Signatures ?
According to the release notes, version 4.5 should have it enabled by default for outgoing requests using the double knocking mechanism, but so far I haven't seen any request containing them...
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Does anyone know of Mastodon servers that use outbound RFC9421 HTTP-Signatures ?
According to the release notes, version 4.5 should have it enabled by default for outgoing requests using the double knocking mechanism, but so far I haven't seen any request containing them...
@mariusor wow, I didn't know that. Great news.
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@mariusor wow, I didn't know that. Great news.
@evan maybe it's not true, but that's how I interpreted this release note:
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@evan maybe it's not true, but that's how I interpreted this release note:
@evan hmmm, I looked at the PR mentioned in that bullet point and I think it might be for accepting incoming RFC9421 signed requests, not using them for outbound ones to other servers...

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@evan maybe it's not true, but that's how I interpreted this release note:
@mariusor @evan I'm not sure how they tested it, but I was also under the impression that it was finished.
I had a thread on the topic a few days ago, got some informative replies: https://activitypub.space/topic/912fb573-4db3-44ba-a886-daed413b6769/could-be-potentially-nice-for-fediverse-server-testing-as-more-implementations-make-the-jump-to-final-rfc-9421-http-signatures.
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@mariusor @evan I'm not sure how they tested it, but I was also under the impression that it was finished.
I had a thread on the topic a few days ago, got some informative replies: https://activitypub.space/topic/912fb573-4db3-44ba-a886-daed413b6769/could-be-potentially-nice-for-fediverse-server-testing-as-more-implementations-make-the-jump-to-final-rfc-9421-http-signatures.
@julian the question stemed from me working on the RFC9421 support in #GoActivityPub
I was curious if I can do some quick debugging on my servers with some existing, widely used, implementation.
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@evan hmmm, I looked at the PR mentioned in that bullet point and I think it might be for accepting incoming RFC9421 signed requests, not using them for outbound ones to other servers...

@mariusor still, that's *massive*.
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