Federation issue (follow requests) from GoToSocial

[wuchyi]

I have been attempting to follow several federated Flipboard accounts from my GoToSocial account, but I am receiving an http error 500 in response.

Attached below are the logs on the follow request (sanitised):

timestamp="02/08/2024 05:06:58.924" func=server.init.func1.Logger.14.1 level=INFO latency="17.968367ms" userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0" method=POST statusCode=200 path=/api/v1/accounts/<REDACTED>/follow clientIP=<REDACTED> requestID=vfm7p4ch04001ysr2jw0 msg="OK: wrote 179B"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:06:58.926" func=workers.(*Processor).ProcessFromClientAPI level=INFO activityType=Create objectType=Follow fromAccount=<REDACTED> msg="processing from client API"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:06:58.930" func=federation.(*federatingActor).Send level=INFO msg="send activity Follow via outbox https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/outbox"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:07:00.468" func=server.init.func1.Logger.14.1 level=INFO latency="575.193µs" userAgent="Flipboard ActivityPub/1.0.0 (+https://flipboard.com)" method=GET statusCode=200 path=/users/<REDACTED>/main-key clientIP=<REDACTED> pubKeyID=https://flipboard.com/actor#main-key requestID=yfq7p4ch04000v1jgrn0 msg="OK: wrote 558B"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:07:00.717" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=ERROR method=POST url=https://flipboard.com/inbox contentType="application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"" attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="http response: 500 Internal Server Error"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:07:09.391" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=ERROR method=POST url=https://flipboard.com/inbox contentType="application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"" attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="http response: 500 Internal Server Error"

On another Flipboard account:

timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:32.065" func=server.init.func1.Logger.14.1 level=INFO latency="4.990966ms" userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0" method=POST statusCode=200 path=/api/v1/accounts/<REDACTED>/follow clientIP=<REDACTED> requestID=bjyr64ch04000ybx1rng msg="OK: wrote 178B"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:32.067" func=workers.(*Processor).ProcessFromClientAPI level=INFO activityType=Create objectType=Follow fromAccount=<REDACTED> msg="processing from client API"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:32.079" func=federation.(*federatingActor).Send level=INFO msg="send activity Follow via outbox https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/outbox"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:32.751" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=INFO method=GET url=https://flipboard.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3A<REDACTED>%40flipboard.com attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="200 OK"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:32.983" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=ERROR method=POST url=https://flipboard.com/inbox contentType="application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"" attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="http response: 500 Internal Server Error"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:33.653" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=INFO method=GET url=https://flipboard.com/users/<REDACTED> attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="200 OK"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:33.663" func=dereferencing.(*Dereferencer).RefreshAccountAsync.func1 level=ERROR msg="error fetching account featured collection: dereferenceCollection: error dereferencing : invalid http request: empty url host"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:33.906" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=INFO method=GET url=https://flipboard.com/users/<REDACTED>/followers attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="200 OK"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:34.150" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=INFO method=GET url=https://flipboard.com/users/<REDACTED>/following attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="200 OK"
timestamp="02/08/2024 05:15:34.394" func=httpclient.(*Client).DoOnce level=INFO method=GET url=https://flipboard.com/users/<REDACTED>/outbox attempt=0 pubKeyID=https://social.<REDACTED>/users/<REDACTED>/main-key msg="200 OK"

Publishing these here after our brief conversation in hopes we can try to drill down the actual issue! Tagging in GtS devs @tsmethurst and @NyaaaWhatsUpDoc if that's ok too since they were also part of the initial conversation.

[wuchyi]

Writefreely has just pushed a new bug fix that has apparently fixed a follow bug from GoToSocial. Might be related? writefreely/writefreely#1000

[jasonculverhouse]

Just FYI we are looking to this issue a fix should be deployed soon.

[tsmethurst]

Oh nice one, great to hear :)

[jasonculverhouse]

This should work now. I was able to perform mutual follows between a flipboard.com and an account on a gotosocial server.

[tsmethurst]

Brilliant, nice one :)