Allow verification via //link[@rel='me'] in feed's website link

[colindean]

Thanks for building this, it's great!

I've got the feed available at https://codeandsupply.co/jobs birb'd via @codeandsupply.co.jobs@rss-parrot.net. I've added //link[@rel='me'] tags to the site to indicate that RSS-parrot's profile is verified, like how other Mastodon and fediverse systems allow.

<link href='https://rss-parrot.net/@codeandsupply.co.jobs' rel='me'>
<link href='https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/codeandsupply.co.jobs' rel='me'>

It doesn't look like RSS-parrot supports this right now. It'd be cool if it did.

[gugray]

I'm not familiar with //link[@rel='me'] tags... I'm very green when it comes to the whole ActivityPub universe!
What would be the expected behavior if this tag is present? (It's in the feed XML, right?)

[colindean]

The ideal behavior is that the service returning a Website link in a profile has verified that the HTML at the URL contains a <link rel="me" href="${activitypub_url}"/> tag where activitypub_url is the URL of the profile page.

That is, if https://rss-parrot.net/u/codeandsupply.co.jobs contains

{
	"@context": [
		"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
		"https://w3id.org/security/v1"
	],
        "…",
        "attachment": [
		{
			"type": "PropertyValue",
			"name": "Website",
			"value": "<a href='https://codeandsupply.co/jobs' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer me' translate='no'>https://codeandsupply.co/jobs</a>"
		}
	]
}

then the HTML or HTTP headers returned in https://codeandsupply.co/jobs need to point back to the profile URL in some way, e.g. one of these:

<link href='https://rss-parrot.net/@codeandsupply.co.jobs' rel='me'>
<link href='https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/codeandsupply.co.jobs' rel='me'>
<link href='https://rss-parrot.net/u/codeandsupply.co.jobs' rel='me'>

and then you can show something on the page that indicates that the target link has been verified.

[colindean]

To be more specific, this would actually be visible on https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/codeandsupply.co.jobs as something like this mockup:

with this simple HTML:

<p
  <span class="label">Site URL: </span>
  <a href="https://codeandsupply.co/jobs">codeandsupply.co/jobs</a>
  <span class="verified" title="verified through link tags">✅</span>
</p>

[gugray]

Got it, thanks! Tagging this as an improvement for later.