Optimistic Inbox

Rework inbound federation to accept requests optimistically. The HTTP Signatures Plug will not attempt to fetch the actor or key and will fail early.

If the signature cannot be validated we pass the required data into the Oban job with a reduced priority and increase the timeout to 20 seconds. The Oban job will handle the actor and key fetching before attempting to validate the activity again. This job will be retried 5 times by default.

Another welcome side effect is that actors who change their keys can federate to Pleroma instances immediately instead of needing to wait the default value of 86400s / 24 hours before the key will be fetched again.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/pleroma/user.ex b/lib/pleroma/user.ex
index ce125d608..4c9aeffcb 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/user.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/user.ex
@@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ defmodule Pleroma.User do
 
   def public_key(_), do: {:error, "key not found"}
 
-  def get_public_key_for_ap_id(ap_id) do
+  def get_or_fetch_public_key_for_ap_id(ap_id) do
     with {:ok, %User{} = user} <- get_or_fetch_by_ap_id(ap_id),
          {:ok, public_key} <- public_key(user) do
       {:ok, public_key}
@@ -2144,6 +2144,15 @@ defmodule Pleroma.User do
     end
   end
 
+  def get_public_key_for_ap_id(ap_id) do
+    with {:ok, %User{} = user} <- get_cached_by_ap_id(ap_id),
+         {:ok, public_key} <- public_key(user) do
+      {:ok, public_key}
+    else
+      _ -> :error
+    end
+  end
+
   @doc "Gets or fetch a user by uri or nickname."
   @spec get_or_fetch(String.t()) :: {:ok, User.t()} | {:error, String.t()}
   def get_or_fetch("http://" <> _host = uri), do: get_or_fetch_by_ap_id(uri)