remy/wm

self referential webmention

jaklt opened this issue · 6 comments

jaklt commented

URL: https://nest.jakl.one/replies/2020-06-23-ypjdf/
Status: 200
Error: No webmention endpoints found in the 1 content entry

It reported that there are no webmention endpoints, even though the in-reply-to target https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2020-06-22-2gmhj/ clearly handles them. I tried to do the same manually with telegraph.p3k.io and it worked.

remy commented

I'm pretty sure that's a self referential webmention, which IIRC isn't something that's supported.

jaklt commented

I see, I didn't know that. Thanks. Is that according to the standard or a choice in the implementation of wm?

jalcine commented

I'm pretty sure that's a self referential webmention, which IIRC isn't something that's supported.

The Webmention spec doesn't have any mention of this; I'm guessing this is a constraint of webmention.app

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jaklt commented

@jalcine Okay, thanks for checking for us. Good to know that in rare cases when I reply to my own posts I need to send mentions by hand :-)

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jalcine commented

@jalcine Okay, thanks for checking for us. Good to know that in rare cases when I reply to my own posts I need to send mentions by hand :-)

Haha! Tbh, this is something wm should handle but I'm curious to hear about @remy's reasoning against it.

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theAdhocracy commented

Was actually about to raise a feature request for "selfmentions", glad I found this (might suggest changing title for future discovery?). My use case would be for webmention-powered cross-linking on my own site. Would be great if webmention.app could support that, though understand if it's outside of feature scope. Perhaps an additional parameter e.g. --self or in URL &self=true if you wanted to enable it?

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