The raw responses look like this. When you search for a user on Mastodon, it makes a webfinger request. My domain distraction.engineer use a Mastodon-style redirect (i.e. HTTP 301 + CORS), and the real PDS gets fingered instead (eww). Then self is fetched to find its endpoints. #atproto #atdev
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