When querying the WebFinger endpoint for a self-hosted Ghost blog at www.r3pek.org, the returned subject field incorrectly drops the www. subdomain, returning acct:index@r3pek.org instead of acct:index@www.r3pek.org. All other fields in the response (actor id, aliases, links) correctly include www..
This is especially problematic when the apex domain (r3pek.org in this case) is already in use by a separate service. In my case, a Mastodon instance — because the mis-stripped handle @index@r3pek.org routes WebFinger lookups to the wrong server entirely.
(url env var is corretly pointing to https://www.r3pek.org)
This was identified on the ap.ghost.org service.
When querying the WebFinger endpoint for a self-hosted Ghost blog at www.r3pek.org, the returned subject field incorrectly drops the
www.subdomain, returningacct:index@r3pek.orginstead ofacct:index@www.r3pek.org. All other fields in the response (actor id, aliases, links) correctly includewww..This is especially problematic when the apex domain (r3pek.org in this case) is already in use by a separate service. In my case, a Mastodon instance — because the mis-stripped handle @index@r3pek.org routes WebFinger lookups to the wrong server entirely.
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urlenv var is corretly pointing tohttps://www.r3pek.org)This was identified on the ap.ghost.org service.