In the new inbox forwarding scheme, we use an additional special HTTP signature
to indicate that we allow or expect forwarding, and to allow that forwarding to
later be verified. When delivering a comment on a remote ticket, we'd like the
project to do inbox forwarding. Based on the URI alone, it's impossible to tell
which recipient is the project, and I guess there are various tricks we could
use here, but for now a very simple solution is used: Enable forwarding for all
remote recipients whose host is the same as the ticket's host.
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.
Each ticket has a single discussion ID, and each ticket has a unique one, so,
given an inner join of tickets and discussions, I think there should be exactly
1 way select a (ticket, discussion) pair given any of these.
But for some reason, PostgreSQL started complaining. Not sure what changed.
Anyway, for now, I switched the groupBy from discussion.id to ticket.id, which
is essentially the same, but for some reason makes PostgreSQL happy. It can't
tell that given a discussion ID, there's exactly 1 way to choose the ticket. Or
something like that. I wonder if I messed up something in DB migrations.
Before this patch, the shared fetch used plain insert, because it relied on
being the only place in the codebase where new RemoteActors get inserted. I was
hoping for that to be the case, but while I tweak things and handle fetching
URIs that can be an actor or a public key (for which ActorFetchShare isn't
sufficient without some smart modification), I'd like concurrent insertions to
be safe, without getting in the way of ActorFetchShare.
With this patch, it now uses insertBy', which doesn't mind concurrent
insertions.
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.
