Follow request from External Instance -> Biohacking.Forum stuck on "Processing"

joshhabka · February 19, 2025, 8:36pm

This is the respective actor: https://biohacking.forum/c/general/4 (@general@biohacking.forum)This is the respective Instance(pub): https://biohacking.forum

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angus · February 25, 2025, 1:16pm

Hey @joshhabka, sorry for the slow reply. Could you share which "external instance" (actor?) is trying to follow your @general@biohacking.forum actor?

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joshhabka · February 26, 2025, 11:07pm

This is the external actor - https://science.social/@admin

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angus · February 28, 2025, 11:33am

Testing this locally, what happens when trying to follow admin@science.social is this:

Discourse finds the actor.
Discourse sends a Follow request.
No ActivityPub response is received (i.e. Accept or Reject).

[details="Follow request (log entry)"]W, [2025-02-28T12:30:14.121827 #13667] WARN -- : [Discourse Activity Pub] https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e successfully delivered to https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021/inbox--- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccessid: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/activity/3daf13eb14c73f428d8138879d99f21atype: Followto: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021published: '2025-02-28T11:28:43Z'updated: '2025-02-28T11:28:43Z'actor: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess id: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e type: Group updated: '2025-02-10T13:50:38Z' url: https://angus.ngrok.io/c/general/4 name: General inbox: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e/inbox outbox: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e/outbox followers: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e/followers preferredUsername: general publicKey: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess id: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e#main-key owner: https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/e297ea197fa0a0ccb54573c2ee7ccf0e publicKeyPem: | -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1PTdYt0XueXZoxNZq7pL aM25LuJakYpHfWXuxja6f1mkX/piCynS74R/rFrdvVvqcCZZ4VaG0X+8jkXgza1E ZjUFg23OXx6facIk0w/cZbv+PdRIYmFDg/HaUJ6p8IqJb2kFZk+2qR5xe6UvTmDj PeKEAkpuUuP63I1bIjwW2YSEIfhIN/P31XNzKcDd3au1cYtl0kCS+uBPdqJakSBe c8yFDbkBGa0oUIVJh35ehMI2PawjaL5ujCIr5PIc1VTdPdaRmec7Ck2MO8Pnf731 9u9LIa5WfUe50VmVMPTDnYtpqDgNW2yOIvUS0FxUFAfybZRuuEw0ML8d8FFxEmm9 PQIDAQAB -----END PUBLIC KEY----- icon: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess type: Image mediaType: image/png url: http://localhost:3000/images/discourse-logo-sketch-small.png "@context": https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"@context": https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreamsobject: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess id: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021 type: Person updated: '2025-02-28T10:50:07Z' inbox: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021/inbox outbox: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021/outbox preferredUsername: admin publicKey: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess id: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021#main-key owner: https://science.social/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021 publicKeyPem: | -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAqZFylB6cnhcoKPXwSFna H3rpoMutpDJsLKyhP825oMVU7Fo/K2cLv+LwD9NlFqb1+ENdB4VRvzco50e15VXr p6Uf/r/AZubxcQX4t3V/ZFodD4EBxzXH0Soo2Qc7obeaKZ7nkeoFa0cDld+LKvXh 66EJ4PQwHCBRhBK76Ij0hEhuC6tF8u31lq0S+h1x0M+2cMuxkHtPlBDBdAWeNLRT jYFfOWdtaca45G1LoM96hN9SPCwvboSO0NdvvEXUtqyTS95XisueLF1v6ONcgek9 Mr5oQKm84fzP3qau+T/tkHb0GLlomcDdEoDuehN5rV2Q0IpZddXTV67ZRCOEcaTd uQIDAQAB -----END PUBLIC KEY----- "@context": https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams[/details]

[details="Response to follow request"]"", :cookies=>[], :host=>"science.social", :scheme=>"https", :method=>:post, :headers=>{"Date"=>"Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:28:44 GMT", "Content-Length"=>"0", "Connection"=>"keep-alive", "access-control-allow-headers"=>"Accept", "access-control-allow-methods"=>"GET, OPTIONS", "access-control-allow-origin"=>"", "access-control-expose-headers"=>"Vary", "strict-transport-security"=>"max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload", "cf-cache-status"=>"DYNAMIC", "Report-To"=>"{\"endpoints\":[{\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\\/report\\/v4?s=fSgkKogq6xRlkPM%2BbV6LsJUdPx9Shz%2Bp36qkB5nm9%2BAh3WnUBJPu%2F7xvx7sMz9gw%2F%2FvsMrN%2FoT4NSlUKYsyxl2AJz8qMfmzYWFvgPgGjsu9%2BAaeKA4sqVuUn9r66V922Cg%3D%3D\"}],\"group\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}", "NEL"=>"{\"success_fraction\":0,\"report_to\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}", "X-Content-Type-Options"=>"nosniff", "Server"=>"cloudflare", "CF-RAY"=>"919012a2bc42e295-BEG", "alt-svc"=>"h3=\":443\"; ma=86400", "server-timing"=>"cfL4;desc=\"?proto=TCP&rtt=6415&min_rtt=5826&rtt_var=2606&sent=5&recv=8&lost=0&retrans=0&sent_bytes=2801&recv_bytes=3976&delivery_rate=494335&cwnd=251&unsent_bytes=0&cid=ab5e7d8e95093fc3&ts=490&x=0\""}, :path=>"/users/a2w9ie51kf4l0021/inbox", :query=>nil, :port=>443, :omit_default_port=>true, :status=>202, :status_line=>"HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted\r\n", :reason_phrase=>"Accepted", :remote_ip=>"104.21.48.35", :local_port=>56383, :local_address=>"192.168.1.2"}, @body="", @headers={"Date"=>"Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:28:44 GMT", "Content-Length"=>"0", "Connection"=>"keep-alive", "access-control-allow-headers"=>"Accept", "access-control-allow-methods"=>"GET, OPTIONS", "access-control-allow-origin"=>"", "access-control-expose-headers"=>"Vary", "strict-transport-security"=>"max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload", "cf-cache-status"=>"DYNAMIC", "Report-To"=>"{\"endpoints\":[{\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\\/report\\/v4?s=fSgkKogq6xRlkPM%2BbV6LsJUdPx9Shz%2Bp36qkB5nm9%2BAh3WnUBJPu%2F7xvx7sMz9gw%2F%2FvsMrN%2FoT4NSlUKYsyxl2AJz8qMfmzYWFvgPgGjsu9%2BAaeKA4sqVuUn9r66V922Cg%3D%3D\"}],\"group\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}", "NEL"=>"{\"success_fraction\":0,\"report_to\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}", "X-Content-Type-Options"=>"nosniff", "Server"=>"cloudflare", "CF-RAY"=>"919012a2bc42e295-BEG", "alt-svc"=>"h3=\":443\"; ma=86400", "server-timing"=>"cfL4;desc=\"?proto=TCP&rtt=6415&min_rtt=5826&rtt_var=2606&sent=5&recv=8&lost=0&retrans=0&sent_bytes=2801&recv_bytes=3976&delivery_rate=494335&cwnd=251&unsent_bytes=0&cid=ab5e7d8e95093fc3&ts=490&x=0\""}, @status=202, @remote_ip="104.21.48.35", @local_port=56383, @local_address="192.168.1.2">[/details]

Just looking at the response we're getting back to the request itself it may be that Cloudflare is interfering in some fashion. Could you check your Cloudflare setup to see if this might be the cause? Failing that, perhaps Misskey has some logs that might shed some light on why it's not responding to the Follow request?

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