Compatibility with 3rdparty Mastodon apps

[ArtificialOwl]

Make it doable for a Mastodon client app to connect to an account from Nextcloud Social.

Tested clients: https://github.com/nextcloud/social/blob/master/docs/3rd-party-fediverse-clients.md

[jancborchardt]

We have to check which route/url the Mastodon/ActivityPub clients are using, possibly we could handle it in the core via htaccess much like we do in Talk with /call/ which doesn’t actually exist.

As talked about @daita @icewind1991

[StCyr]

We have to check which route/url the Mastodon/ActivityPub clients are using, possibly we could handle it in the core via htaccess much like we do in Talk with /call/ which doesn’t actually exist.

As talked about @daita @icewind1991

Here are the requests I see on my instance when trying to set up a 3rdparty mastodon app:

91.87.150.82 - - [20/Oct/2020:18:52:28 +0200] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0" 302 638 "-" "MastodonApp/1.11.6 (iPhone; iOS 14.0.1; Scale/2.00)"
91.87.150.82 - - [20/Oct/2020:18:52:28 +0200] "GET /api/v1/instance HTTP/2.0" 302 638 "-" "MastodonApp/1.11.6 (iPhone; iOS 14.0.1; Scale/2.00)"
91.87.150.82 - - [20/Oct/2020:18:52:28 +0200] "GET /index.php/login HTTP/2.0" 200 3901 "-" "MastodonApp/1.11.6 (iPhone; iOS 14.0.1; Scale/2.00)"

[jancborchardt]

Ah cool, thanks a lot @StCyr! :) @daita @icewind1991 check it out.

[StCyr]

So, here are some more debug info:

iMast:

[22/Oct/2020:15:34:30 +0200] "GET /apps/social/api/v1/instance HTTP/2.0" 500 6725 "-" "iMast/5.1 (jp.pronama.imast; build:225; iOS 14.0.1) Alamofire/4.9.1"

{"reqId":"pkH9Hj9bAOrz8xg2ml1Q","level":3,"time":"2020-10-22T13:34:31+00:00","remoteAddr":"91.87.150.82","user":"--","app":"index","method":"GET","url":"/apps/social/api/v1/instance","message":"{\"Exception\":\"OCA\\\\Social\\\\Exceptions\\\\InstanceDoesNotExistException\",\"Message\":\"\",\"Code\":0,\"Trace\":[{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/apps/social/lib/Db/InstancesRequest.php\",\"line\":78,\"function\":\"getInstanceFromRequest\",\"class\":\"OCA\\\\Social\\\\Db\\\\InstancesRequestBuilder\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/apps/social/lib/Service/InstanceService.php\",\"line\":86,\"function\":\"getLocal\",\"class\":\"OCA\\\\Social\\\\Db\\\\InstancesRequest\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/apps/social/lib/Controller/ApiController.php\",\"line\":252,\"function\":\"getLocal\",\"class\":\"OCA\\\\Social\\\\Service\\\\InstanceService\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php\",\"line\":169,\"function\":\"instance\",\"class\":\"OCA\\\\Social\\\\Controller\\\\ApiController\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php\",\"line\":100,\"function\":\"executeController\",\"class\":\"OC\\\\AppFramework\\\\Http\\\\Dispatcher\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php\",\"line\":152,\"function\":\"dispatch\",\"class\":\"OC\\\\AppFramework\\\\Http\\\\Dispatcher\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Route/Router.php\",\"line\":308,\"function\":\"main\",\"class\":\"OC\\\\AppFramework\\\\App\",\"type\":\"::\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/lib/base.php\",\"line\":1009,\"function\":\"match\",\"class\":\"OC\\\\Route\\\\Router\",\"type\":\"->\"},{\"file\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/index.php\",\"line\":37,\"function\":\"handleRequest\",\"class\":\"OC\",\"type\":\"::\"}],\"File\":\"/var/www/nextcloud/apps/social/lib/Db/InstancesRequestBuilder.php\",\"Line\":121,\"CustomMessage\":\"--\"}","userAgent":"iMast/5.1 (jp.pronama.imast; build:225; iOS 14.0.1) Alamofire/4.9.1","version":"20.0.0.9"}

Amaroq

[22/Oct/2020:14:51:13 +0200] "POST /apps/social/api/v1/apps HTTP/2.0" 405 602 "-" "DireFloof/1.1.18 (iPhone; iOS 14.0.1; Scale/2.00)"

Oyakodon

 "POST /apps/social/api/v1/apps HTTP/2.0" 405 993 "-" "Oyakodon/3 CFNetwork/1197 Darwin/20.0.0"

Librem Social

 "POST /apps/social/api/v1/apps HTTP/2.0" 405 995 "-" "LibremSocial/1.0.3 (iPhone; iOS 14.0.1; Scale/2.00)"

[genebean]

I see the readme lists Mastodon now and that the app description was update a bit over a year ago... has progress been made on what's talked about here since the last post in this issue or is this where things still stand?

[Thatoo]

It doesn't feel like nextcloud social is a very actived and maintain app.