High-level Rust library for the Activitypub protocol - GitHub - LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust: High-level Rust library for the Activitypub protocol

The library has a nice guide and two working examples, so I tried the local_federation example. To build the example, you need Rust compiler, cargo package manager, and git:

$ git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust
$ cd activitypub-federation-rust
$ cargo run --example local_federation axum
[INFO  local_federation] Start with parameter `axum` or `actix-web` to select the webserver
[INFO  local_federation::axum::http] Listening with axum on localhost:8001
[INFO  local_federation::axum::http] Listening with axum on localhost:8002
[INFO  local_federation] Local instances started
[INFO  local_federation] Alpha user follows beta user via webfinger
[INFO  activitypub_federation::fetch] Fetching remote object http://localhost:8002/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:beta@localhost:8002
[INFO  activitypub_federation::fetch] Fetching remote object http://localhost:8002/beta
[INFO  activitypub_federation::fetch] Fetching remote object http://localhost:8001/alpha
[INFO  local_federation] Follow was successful
[INFO  local_federation] Beta sends a post to its followers
[INFO  local_federation] Alpha received post: Hello world!
[INFO  local_federation] Test completed

You may want to use network analizyer (e.g, wireshark) to see how it works under the hood.

GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:beta@localhost:8002 HTTP/1.1
accept: application/jrd+json
digest: SHA-256=[redacted]
signature: keyId="http://localhost:8001/#main-key",algorithm="hs2019",[...]
host: localhost:8002

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json
content-length: 269
date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:05:19 GMT

{
  "subject": "acct:beta@localhost:8002",
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
      "type": "text/html",
      "href": "http://localhost:8002/beta",
      "template": null
    },
    {
      "rel": "self",
      "type": "application/activity+json",
      "href": "http://localhost:8002/beta",
      "template": null
    }
  ]
}

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