- HttpScope (AsyncLocal) tags each outbound request with a purpose and a trigger:
- purpose is set by the caller: actor, key, object, webfinger, context, nodeinfo;
- trigger is set by the job kind, by "verify" during inbox verification, or defaults
to "request".
- FederationHttp records every JSON, media and stream fetch: status, time, bytes, hops,
and an outcome of ok, refused or failed, with a reason: disallowed, remembered,
bad-redirect, too-many-redirects, content-type, too-large, bad-json, private-address,
timeout, network, or the status. A fetch a reader caused (trigger "request") is only
counted per server per day.
- Link previews record a 'preview' event: card, no-card or failed.
- The media proxy counts cache hits.
- TrafficMeter counts the client API per endpoint group, method and status class. It
counts our served documents (actor, outbox, collection, object, activity, licence,
webfinger, nodeinfo) by kind, status and whether signed, per day and never per server,
and never names a circle's collections.
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InboxReceiver records each answer once, in a finally, with a reason: too-large, not-json,
not-activity, missing-type-or-actor, no-signature, the signature check's own codes
(headers-unsigned, digest-mismatch, header-unreadable, date-skew, expired,
algorithm-unsupported), signature-invalid, actor-not-key-owner, key-unavailable,
id-cross-origin, undo-foreign, misattributed, unknown-recipient, and for 202s queued,
duplicate, suspended or self-delete-unknown-key. Each event carries the activity and object
type, the inbox, the signature scheme, the bytes and the time taken. A 404 for an unknown
/mouth and a rate-limited inbox (429, from OnRejected) are recorded too.
Until the signature verifies, the host is only claimed, so it is kept only if the server is
already known. A suspended server is recorded under its own name.
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- When a sender's key cannot be fetched because its server timed out or answered 5xx, the inbox answers 503 with
Retry-After: 300 instead of 401, so Mastodon 4.7 retries rather than switching to RFC 9421 signatures we do not
verify yet. The fetcher's failure cache now remembers whether a failure was temporary.
- Follow, Like, Block, Accept, Reject and Undo ids are deliberately not dereferenceable: serving them would publish
who follows, likes and blocks whom. They are always sent with their object embedded.
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- ObjectRecord, one per stored remote object: the raw JSON (up to 256 KB, always hashed), delivered or fetched,
refetched from origin or not, the activity that brought it (or caused the fetch), shared or personal inbox, the
signature's key, algorithm and signed headers, received time, published and updated, the delivering activity's
@context, and up to ten later revisions from Update.
- Delivery details travel from InboxReceiver through the inbox job to the handlers as Arrival.Current.
- A host is described from its NodeInfo when we first hear from it, at most weekly (DescribeInstance job), never when
someone opens the details view.
- GET /api/privapub/v1/statuses/:id/provenance and /api/privapub/v1/instances/:host, with the extensions an object
used detected from its raw form (044f quotes, interaction policies, contexts, proofs, Misskey fields, MFM, FEP-8967
links, emoji, polls, language maps, url variants, Markdown content).
Checked live: a GoToSocial reply shows as delivered to the shared inbox, signed hs2019 with GoToSocial's fragment-less
key id, with its interaction policy detected, and gts.test is described as gotosocial 0.22.1.
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DomainBlock (domain, severity, reject-media, public and private comment)
covers the domain and its subdomains. Admins manage them under
/clientapi/admin/domainblocks/{list,insert,delete}; the set is kept in
memory, reloaded on every change and at most five minutes stale.
A suspended domain is refused by FederationHttp.IsAllowed, so nothing is
fetched from it and no job delivers to it, and the inbox drops its
activities with a 202 before fetching any key. Reject-media strips the
attachments of posts from that domain. Silence is recorded for the
timelines and notifications that arrive in P1.2.
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InboxService is split the way the roadmap lays out Federation/Inbox:
- InboxReceiver reads and verifies the request exactly as before, runs
the checks that need no fetch (the activity id's origin, a Follow of a
missing or local-only actor, an Undo of someone else's activity, an
embedded object attributed to someone else), queues a ProcessInbox job
and answers 202. The job's dedupe key is the activity id, so a peer that
delivers the same activity twice is processed once.
- InboxProcessor (two at a time, eight attempts) loads the verified actor
and hands the activity to the handler for its type.
- Handlers/{Follow,Undo,Create,Delete,Update}Handler are the old methods,
unchanged except that they no longer produce status codes; the JSON
helpers live in Objects/ActivityJson and the group membership helpers in
Inbox/ForeignMembers.
A slow fetch of an object or a remote actor now delays the job, not the
sender's HTTP request.
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