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Phantom Websocket Pub Notification (cross-pod notification bug)
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Description
I am currently looking into notifications from the inbox using WebSockets over at uvdsl/solid-inbox-watcher.
(It seems that https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server/issues/933 could be closed?)
However, we ran into an odd thing:
Alice (aka. uvdsl, left hand side) and Bob (aka. ik1533, right hand side) both have their own pod on the same NSS.
When watching Alice's inbox, Alice receives a update notification via wss, when Bob's inbox is updated.

The PUB message Alice receives only contains "correct" data, i.e. the endpoint she subscribed to. But that resource wasn't updated...
MessageEvent {
isTrusted: true,
data: 'pub https://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/inbox/',
origin: 'wss://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu', lastEventId: '',
source: null, …}
isTrusted: true
bubbles: false
cancelBubble: false
cancelable: false
composed: false
currentTarget: WebSocket {url: 'wss://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/inbox/',
readyState: 1, bufferedAmount: 0, onerror: null, onopen: ƒ, …}
data: "pub https://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/inbox/"
defaultPrevented: false
eventPhase: 0
lastEventId: ""
origin: "wss://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu"
path: []
ports: []
returnValue: true
source: null
srcElement: WebSocket {url: 'wss://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/inbox/', readyState: 1, bufferedAmount: 0, onerror: null, onopen: ƒ, …}
target: WebSocket {url: 'wss://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/inbox/', readyState: 1, bufferedAmount: 0, onerror: null, onopen: ƒ, …}
timeStamp: 38368.69999999972
type: "message"
userActivation: null
[[Prototype]]: MessageEvent
Other examples can be found at the corresponding issue in my app's repo: https://github.com/uvdsl/solid-inbox-watcher/issues/6
We tested it on solidweb.org and on another NSS 5.6.16
Do you have any idea as to why this happens?
Cheers
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the cross-pod notification in uvdsl/solid-inbox-watcher, especially the scenario described in its issue 6, using the reported solidweb.org or NSS 5.6.16 environments. Compare the subscription endpoint with the pod that was updated; done means an inbox watcher receives a notification only when its subscribed resource changes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100