Add "passthrough" to a mastodon instance on webfinger

[mindlesstux]

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I am just starting to play with mastodon and I might have done something very bad but could be interesting. I read and executed having my mastodon instance at mastodon.mindlesstux.com with wordpress at mindlesstux.com. I wanted to have my mastodon users be @mindlesstux.com instead of @mastodon.mindlesstux.com. I found a couple of settings in mastodon and set the settings to allow this per: https://github.com/felx/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md

I also redirected webfinger to mastodon for a while. This worked till I found your plugin.

I ended up with the plugin installed breaking people being able to find my mastodon user, and without it cant find the blog user in mastodon. Sure I could have gone with some other plugin but this one just "works" from what I can tell compared to the others.

I did a little poking around the code and a bit of reading mastodon docs to find out webfinger requests can be 301/302 redirected. From there it was about a 2hr hack job to come up with the attached diff of the 0.13.3 release code.

add_fallthrough_url.diff.txt

This is by no means good code, I have not done php code in years so there may be better ways to do things. It adds a single setting for ActivityPub for a "fall through" url. (I set mine to https://mastodon.mindlesstux.com ) Then in the 3 error conditions I have the webfinger kick a 302 redirect to the mastodon instance instead of your error message/code if the setting has anything in it.

Testing used my "old"/unused fosstodon account and was able to cleanly search for both user accounts.

The only two gotchas I can spot right now:

• Anyone in my mastodon server cant find the wordpress user, which is something I can live with.
• The wordpress users take priority over the mastodon users, basically cant have both users be mindlesstux

[mindlesstux]

Appologies for the diff file, its been to long and it is kind of late for me to figure out git pull requests.

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