Kevin McPhillips
@james I have a puzzle for you. I had put a link in my bio (to rubyfriends.app/profiles/YBYT specifically) and the kind admin for that site reached out to me to say that he sees HEAD requests from different ips to that URL every 5 seconds forever. If I update the URL it changes in the logs there, so I confirmed it's connected. Thoughts?
Dec 3 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadJames AdamDec 4

@kmcphillips I'd have to dig into the mastodon source to be sure about what's happening here, but here's my hunch:

1. I know that it will try to "verify" the page by checking for a "rel=me" meta tag, and that process might start with a HEAD request.
2. when you change your profile, that gets broadcast to other servers in the fediverse, and they'll all be trying to do that same verification.

... so that might explain the different IPs. It probably won't last _forever_, but... maybe? 🤷

Show threadKevin McPhillipsDec 4

@james Yeah I also had lots of maybes. I haven’t updated my profile in months. And I doubt “every five seconds forever” is the design. But I hadn’t thought if other servers replicated the behaviour.

Thanks.

Show threadJames AdamDec 5
@kmcphillips FWIW ruby.social runs on the defaults, I haven't made any customisations that would change the way bio links are handled 🤷