c/technical-discussion · by julian@activitypub.space · 12d

@liaizon@social.wake.st I'm testing my split domain setup but it can't seem to resolve your webfinger properly. BrowserPub suggests it's a content-type issue in your webfinger :smiley:

Screenshot of BrowserPub address bar with error

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liaizon@social.wake.st · 1 pts · 12d (6 replies)

@julian hmm well I'm serving a well-known from github pages and it seemed to work but if you know what I should change lemme know

julian@activitypub.space · 1 pts · 12d (5 replies)

@liaizon@social.wake.st

 $ curl -I https://wake.st/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Aliaizon%40wake.st
HTTP/2 200
server: GitHub.com
content-type: application/octet-stream
last-modified: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:37:43 GMT
access-control-allow-origin: *
etag: "6a8c2d07-248"
expires: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:41:20 GMT
cache-control: max-age=600
x-proxy-cache: MISS
x-github-request-id: 0998:31A41F:B12E62:C2EF36:6A8DFB98
x-github-edge-region: iad
accept-ranges: bytes
age: 0
date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:31:20 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
x-served-by: cache-yyz4527-YYZ
x-cache: MISS
x-cache-hits: 0
x-timer: S1787689880.196415,VS0,VE190
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id: be52b8e151d001b8e53e7daa5bbea8c82a4fa06b
content-length: 584

I think it isn't supposed to be application/octet-stream :thinking_face:

liaizon@social.wake.st · 1 pts · 12d (4 replies)

@julian looks like it still works ok tho https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=liaizon%40wake.st

julian@activitypub.space · 1 pts · 12d (3 replies)

@liaizon@social.wake.st yeah it does, just seems to be due to stricter checks on my end. I don't know if that's the right content type though.

liaizon@social.wake.st · 1 pts · 12d (2 replies)

@julian its because its being served from github pages and theres nothing I can do to change that. cause wake.st is my static website...

julian@activitypub.space · 1 pts · 11d (1 reply)

@liaizon@wake.st okay, I added some code to handle your specific use case.

You're also @liaizon@wake.st now, so split domain support now works on NodeBB :smiley:

liaizon@social.wake.st · 1 pts · 11d

@julian wowowowow thank you. It will also help a handfull of other people who still have their single user mastodon instances set up like this. It used to be in the mastodon docs ages ago