(2020-04-25) Reactivating IndieAuth

When setting up WikiFlux I set up IndieAuth using Twitter.

I realized a while back that didn't work anymore, because Twitter had turned off some chunk of its API.

I want to start experiment with WebMention, so I'm reactivating it. Using http://webseitz.fluxent.com/

So I set it up with GitHub. That works.

But I noticed the "user name" is pretty ugly. So I ask on IRC....

• it will always be a URL, not a name from my HCard.
• but major ugliness comes from using the full page-URL, which becomes necessary because I have no page at all at my domain-root. So need to fix that (not sure whether I can get a route that works in my code, or if I need to handle that at the nginx level...
• Apr26
  • yes have an add_url_rule() already to /static/ directory, which has index.html in it
  • http://webseitz.fluxent.com/index.html works, but raw host doesn't give it
  • needed to add route, method that calls send_static_file('index.html') - now static page returns at root
  • but that doesn't solve the "ugly username" issue.
  • pondering whether to leave it as-is, or make index return a page that's dynamic enough to put the IndieAuth bits in, and change the rel="me" to point to the root....
  • made the changes. Ah, had to change my URL in my github profile to just point to the root. Now works.

Afterwards, if you want the thing on the wiki where you can use {{nickname}} then the wiki has a special way to do that which has nothing to do with authentication: sparkline/template https://indieweb.org/wikifying#Step_Four:_Add_a_sparkline