Recommend object URL should 301 to AP resource

[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]

@[email protected] 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]

@[email protected] 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]

@[email protected] 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

https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub

[johnonolan@mastodon.xyz]

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

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@[email protected] no worries, and thanks! Will do.