David LeadbeaterNov 7, 2022

Fun with internationalised domains:
Mastodon appears to render some Emoji characters in domains (but not all, I haven't had a chance to dig into the code yet).

If you want to be doubly verified, add a DNS record for "xn--13h" which is the punycode for ☑️, then configure and use that as your URL. See my profile for an example.

(I haven't posted an introduction, but expect more DNS crazy and silliness, some past hits have included Wordle over DNS and Wikipedia over DNS.)

#punycode #idna #unicode #emoji #dns

Show threadilmari
@dgl That looks rather broken in Tusky
Nov 12, 2022 at 11:15pmWeb
Show threadDavid LeadbeaterNov 12, 2022

@ilmari interesting. There's some changes coming in mastodon 4.0 for verification, e.g. not verifying HTTP links (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20242, which means I edited my profile to play with that and lost verification), as well as the web UI handling the "@" bug better.

However looks like that's probably a Tusky bug with unicode spaces on top of the web UI one.

require https:// for link verification · Issue #20242 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch at the moment the profile link verification works with both http and https connections. I think it would be ideal to only validate https connections so that at the point of verification the s...

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