Clarification on example in iOS instant notifications

[jpmens]

The example of what is transferred to ntfy.sh in #300 is slightly confusing, and I hope you can clarify this for me.

The example shows what the self-hosted server forwards to the upstream server:

curl -X POST -H "X-Poll-ID: s4PdJozxM8na" https://ntfy.sh/6de73be8dfb7d69e32fb2c00c23fe7adbd8b5504406e3068c273aa24cef4055b
{"id":"4HsClFEuCIcs","time":1654087955,"event":"poll_request","topic":"6de73be8dfb7d69e32fb2c00c23fe7adbd8b5504406e3068c273aa24cef4055b","message":"New message","poll_id":"s4PdJozxM8na"}

Is the attribute message really contained in what is sent upstream? IMO that would defeat the actual purpose of hiding the published data.

[binwiederhier]

It literally sends the message "New message" for every message. Even if your message is "Some other message", the message will always be "New message". This is so that if iOS cannot talk to the selfhosted server (in time, or at all), it'll show "New message" as a popup.

ntfy/server/server.go

Line 96 in cbc912d

newMessageBody = "New message" // Used in poll requests as generic message

ntfy/server/types.go

Line 116 in cbc912d

func newPollRequestMessage(topic, pollID string) *message {

ntfy/server/server.go

Line 463 in cbc912d

m = newPollRequestMessage(t.ID, m.PollID)