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WebSocket URL may be redirected for stability reasons

Open andypiper opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Per this conversation on Mastodon.

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/111739587756391314

I need to dig the WebSocket URL for streaming updates from the instance info because it's on a different hostname from the rest of the API, which the API docs don't mention as a possibility.
"This should be in the docs (and the "usual" endpoint should redirect to the new URL).
This is not specific to mastodon.social, a few "large" servers are using this feature to be able to have DDOS protection / CDN on the main domain with providers that do not support Websockets."
"which reminds me, the docs say the relevant URL is at Instance.configuration.urls.streaming_api https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Instance/#streaming_api but I found it at Instance.urls.streaming_api on all the masto instances I'm testing on."

Relates to #1237

andypiper avatar Jan 11 '24 22:01 andypiper