Recommend object URL should 301 to AP resource

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

@julian @johnonolan @angus @evan 301/308 are meant to permanently update old identifiers regardless of request headers. consider 303 See Other for content negotiation purposes, or consider rel=alternate type=… Link headers otherwise.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@julian @johnonolan @angus there's a whole task force for this. You've commented on it. Why does this need to be discussed?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@trwnh @julian @johnonolan @angus there's a doc for this.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@evan@cosocial.ca this was to ask the mentioned parties for Ghost and Discourse to implement.

I mentioned you to keep you in the loop because task forces achieve nothing without implementors doing the work.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Object IDs should really be retrievable by http GET. See section 3.2 of https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@rimu@piefed.social yes, that's right. I'm specifically referring to object urls though, which tend to be more user facing.

[silverpill@mitra.social]

@julian @johnonolan @angus @evan

Why 301 and not 302?
I am using 302. Probably chose it because everyone else was using it.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@silverpill@mitra.social 302/307 is also fine by me. Probably safer from being accidentally cached and may be more appropriate in this situation.

[rimu@piefed.social]

You could save yourself some hassle and make urls and IDs the same value. But you do you :)

[johnonolan@mastodon.xyz]

@julian @angus @evan interesting problem! Redirect feels like a slightly weird pattern to me, intuitively, but open to implementing any preferred approach

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz A solution is only needed if the resource id is different from the URL (which in Ghost's case, is true).

You don't have to use a redirect. If your software is capable of doing it, you can serve the ActivityPub object directly from that route's controller; that's what NodeBB does.

[johnonolan@mastodon.xyz]

@julian If you want to make an issue here about what you'd like to see I'll make sure the team sees it :)

GitHub - TryGhost/ActivityPub: A full-featured ActivityPub server for networked publishing with Ghost

A full-featured ActivityPub server for networked publishing with Ghost - TryGhost/ActivityPub

GitHub (github.com)

[johnonolan@mastodon.xyz]

@julian (Thank you for the ping btw, I appreciate the note - this wasn't on my radar)

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz no worries, and thanks! Will do.