keybase / keybase/keybase-issues

Web site proof UI confuses web sites and domains

Open
#2,489 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
No language data
Stars
899
Forks
40
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

I am https://keybase.io/creideiki

I control the DNS domain `ferretporn.se`, and prove that by publishing a TXT record on `ferretporn.se`.

I also control the web server listening on `www.ferretporn.se`, and prove that by publishing a text file at https://www.ferretporn.se/keybase.txt.

However, the web UI seems to confuse these two concepts, and publishes a web link to http://ferretporn.se/ from the DNS proof. This is obviously nonsense, and serves only to confuse the user, since I don't run a web server at that address. A domain is not the same thing as one of the names contained in that domain.

Please change the web UI to treat web servers and DNS domains as the two completely different concepts they actually are.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

Research direction

Start by locating the web UI code that renders proof results and compare the DNS-domain and web-server proof paths described here. Verify that the two proof types are displayed as distinct concepts, with the DNS proof referring to the controlled domain and the web proof to the web server name.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.