This allows to browse via e.g. localhost:3000 even if the instance host is
something else and the rendered URLs don't have a port number. It still makes
many things impossible or inconvenient, but at least you can launch Vervis
locally for development and see pages. Right now even CSS doesn't work because
of the URLs not matching the actual localhost:3000 access. Maybe gradually I'll
figure it out.
This allows the inbox system to be separate from Person, allowing other kinds
of objects to have inboxes too. Much like there's FollowerSet which works
separately from Tickets, and will allow to have follower sets for projects,
users, etc. too.
Inboxes are made independent from Person users because I'm going to give
Projects inboxes too.
Until now, there were some simple host checks when verifying the HTTP sig,
meant to forbid hosts that are IP addresses, local hosts, and maybe other weird
cases. These checks moved to Network.FedURI, so now FedURIs in general aren't
allowed to have such hosts. The host type is still `Text` though, for now.
This patch does a small simple change, however at the cost of the request body
not being available for display in the latest activity list, unless processing
succeeds. I'll fix this situation in a separate patch.
It runs checks against all the relevant tables, but ultimately just inserts the
activity into the recipient's inbox and nothing more, leaving the RemoteMessage
creation and inbox forwarding to the project inbox handler.
Inbox post is disabled but in the next patches I'll code and integrate a fixed
complete one, hopefully finally getting ticket comment federation ready for
testing.
I'm making this change because if an actor receives an activity due to being
addressed in bto, ot bcc, or being listed in some remote collection, the server
doesn't have a way to tell which actor(s) are the intended recipients, without
having an individual inbox URL for each actor. I could use a different hack for
this, but it wouldn't be compatible with other AP servers (unless the whole
fediverse agrees on a method).
I wasn't using sharedInbox anyway, and it's an optimization either way.
I wrote a function handleOutboxNote that's supposed to do the whole outbox POST
handler process. There's an outbox item table in the DB now, I adapted things
in various source files. Ticket comment federation work is still in progress.
* Adapt DB related code to return the InstanceId and RemoteSharerId
* Previously, when fetching a known shared key, we were running a DB
check/update for the shared usage record. I noticed - and hopefully I
correctly noticed - that this check already runs when we discover the keyId
points to a shared key we already know. So, after successful sig
verification, there's no need to run the check again. So I removed it.
- Exclude hosts without periods, so things like localhost and IPv6 are rejected
- Exclude hosts without letters, so things like IPv4 are rejected
- Exclude the instance's own host, just in case somehow some fake activity
slips in and gets approved, maybe even accidentally when delivered by another
server
Before, things worked like this:
* Only signatures of Ed25519 keys could be verified
* Key encoding placed the plain binary Ed25519 key in the PEM, instead of the
key's ASN1 encoding
With this patch it now works like this:
* Ed25519 signatures are supported as before
* RSA keys are now supported too, assuming RSA-SHA256 signatures
* Both Ed25519 and RSA keys are encoded and decoded using actual PEM with ASN1
