Dylan FreedmanDec 22, 2022

Anyone familiar with the way Mastodon handles verifying URLs? At the Washington Post we're working on adding verified rel="me" and Mastodon links in our author profiles, but we're seeing mixed results on verification actually going through. It seems non-deterministic(?)

@dylan (me): works
@jeremybmerrill: does not work even though he's on the same server as me
@zubakskees : works
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The author pages on the Post are identical in terms of linking back to Mastodon. #mastodon

Show threadGlenn Fleishman
@dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees Silly to ask, possibly, but are you forcing a secure connections as in typing out https://washingtonpost.com/etc.? I saw one account that someone had entered a URL and it didn't verify but explicitly starting it with https:// instead of leaving it implicit caused the verification to work.
Dec 22, 2022 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadThat Blair GuyDec 22, 2022
@glennf @dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees That's one I fought with for a bit. Definitely include the https:// on the mastodon side of things.