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Does the #Bluesky bridge thing use some kind of odd `content-type` when requesting profile data?

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  • jdt@enigmatick.socialundefined

    Does the #Bluesky bridge thing use some kind of odd content-type when requesting profile data? I'm seeing these errors in my logs when my server tries to retrieve posts (as part of my reply retrieval functions):

    [2025-12-09T00:59:33Z ERROR enigmatick::retriever] Failed to fetch object from remote. URL: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:oofa3qqoiszsmajbigfqskqv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7egmddbwk2h, Status: 502 Bad Gateway, Body: <!doctype html>
    <html lang=en>
    <title>502 Bad Gateway</title>
    <h1>Bad Gateway</h1>
    <p>Couldn't fetch https://enigmatick.social/user/jdt as ActivityStreams 2: Couldn't decode as JSON</p>

    If I'm reading that right, my retriever is failing because the bridge is trying to retrieve my profile and can't convert it to JSON. But I verified that my profile is provided as JSON for requests with these Accept header types:

    • application/json
    • application/activity+json
    • application/ld+json
    • application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams

    ...so I can't figure out what it's complaining about. I'll need to watch my varnish logs to see if I can capture one of the requests live from that perspective.

    #ActivityPub

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  • jdt@enigmatick.socialundefined jdt@enigmatick.social

    Does the #Bluesky bridge thing use some kind of odd content-type when requesting profile data? I'm seeing these errors in my logs when my server tries to retrieve posts (as part of my reply retrieval functions):

    [2025-12-09T00:59:33Z ERROR enigmatick::retriever] Failed to fetch object from remote. URL: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:oofa3qqoiszsmajbigfqskqv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7egmddbwk2h, Status: 502 Bad Gateway, Body: <!doctype html>
    <html lang=en>
    <title>502 Bad Gateway</title>
    <h1>Bad Gateway</h1>
    <p>Couldn't fetch https://enigmatick.social/user/jdt as ActivityStreams 2: Couldn't decode as JSON</p>

    If I'm reading that right, my retriever is failing because the bridge is trying to retrieve my profile and can't convert it to JSON. But I verified that my profile is provided as JSON for requests with these Accept header types:

    • application/json
    • application/activity+json
    • application/ld+json
    • application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams

    ...so I can't figure out what it's complaining about. I'll need to watch my varnish logs to see if I can capture one of the requests live from that perspective.

    #ActivityPub

    liaizon@social.wake.stundefined

    @jdt this seems like it could use a @snarfed.org tag :)

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  • liaizon@social.wake.stundefined liaizon@social.wake.st

    @jdt this seems like it could use a @snarfed.org tag :)

    julian@activitypub.spaceundefined

    liaizon@social.wake.st I pinged him, he says he can't respond yet because of the aforementioned connection negotiation issue! 🙂

    jdt@enigmatick.social

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