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 threadSuganthan MohanadasanDec 22, 2022
@dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees If the page is more than 1MB it won’t work. I have the same problem. You need to find a lighter page.
Show threadDylan FreedmanDec 22, 2022
@sugan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees This is a very promising lead and may well be the problem! Thank you for the suggestion. We'll look into this 🙌
Show threadChris Zubak-Skees
@dylan @sugan @jeremybmerrill We now think this is it.
Dec 22, 2022 at 7:58pmWeb
Show threadSuganthan MohanadasanDec 22, 2022
@zubakskees @dylan @jeremybmerrill You can see the issue being discussed here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15316
Link verification fails silently when page size exceeds 1MB · Issue #15316 · mastodon/mastodon

Expected behaviour Adding a link in the specified rel="me" format to a webpage, and then adding that webpage to a user profile, causes the link to be identified as verified. Actual behavi...

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Show threadChris Zubak-SkeesDec 22, 2022
@sugan @dylan @jeremybmerrill Thank you!
Show threadRubiconDec 22, 2022
@dylan @jeremybmerrill Since you know yours works and jeremy does have a heavy page, why not just add jeremy's rel=me to your page and link to it for testing purposes?