Support non-acct:account@domain URIs

[evanminto]

As part of ActivityPub support for Mastodon, I need to be able to look users up by the URI of their ActivityStreams 2.0 representation (this isn't strictly necessary, but it's the best way to ensure backwards-compatibility as we move to AP). We should still use GoldFinger for this, but it seems like it only supports acct:account@domain-style URIs at the moment. It would be great if it could accept arbitrary URIs!

[Gargron]

No, this library does not care what you pass into webfinger. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb#L24

[evanminto]

Hm, maybe I misunderstood then, sorry! It seems like it relies on being able to split account and domain by @ in order to find the domain to search for .well-known, based on some of the code I was reading here: https://github.com/tootsuite/goldfinger/blob/master/lib/goldfinger/client.rb#L78

I was also getting errors when trying to pass non-account@domain URIs to Goldfinger from Mastodon's end, but again, it's possible I missed something.

[redtachyons]

Hi, @evanminto Can you please provide an example uri which fails in current implementation?