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aaronpk / IndieAuth.com

This service is being discontinued in favor of indielogin.com
https://indieweb.org/indieauth.com
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Add support for one-level deep links like /contact #48

Open chrisroos opened 10 years ago

chrisroos commented 10 years ago

Per RelMeAuth: users with separate contact pages.

This is already mentioned on the IndieWebCamp wiki but it took me a long time to determine that this was a known limitation (having first tried to authenticate with my site where the homepage links to my about page). GitHub issues feels like a more natural place to capture this to me.

Current behaviour:

https://github.com/chrisroos" was not found on the site "http://chrisroos.co.uk". Try re-scanning after checking your rel=me links on your site.

julianfoad commented 7 years ago

I also ran into this issue. My main page (www.foad.me.uk) has a rel=me link to my profile page (julian.foad.me.uk) which has the rel=me links to Twitter & Github. For this test, one of those links back to www.f.m.u and the other back to julian.f.m.u. Indieauth.com(julian.f.m.u) works fine, but indieauth.com(www.f.m.u) reports "julian.foad.me.uk/ ... is not a supported authentication provider".

(That is an earlier failure than the original report, perhaps because of changes in indieauth.com, or is it because my contact page is on a different domain from my home page?)

The spec says this should be supported, doesn't it?

julianfoad commented 7 years ago

What I care about is the bad impression this gives of IndieAuth: one tries to set it up according to the spec, and it doesn't work, one wastes time trying things and eventually discovering there's a bug report about it here.

(I don't care at all about whether it works for me on my site; my site is experimental and I'm happy to do things a different way. In fact IndieAuth already works fine for me: I just specify my contact page as my sign-in URL.)

So one possible resolution to this bug would to make IndieAuth.com say clearly "This site is not a reference implementation of the spec. It has gaps, which are: (1) multiple rel-me hops not supported; (2) ..."

Another possible resolution would be remove this from the spec.