> It is a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors to your website explore interesting websites and pages recommended by a community of independent personal website owners.

Back in the Stone Age, we called these “Webrings,” but they weren’t as fancy.

One of the issues that I faced, while developing an open-source application framework, was that hosting that used FastCGI, would not honor Auth headers, so I was forced to pass the tokens in the query. It sucked, because that makes copy/paste of the Web address a real problem. It would often contain tokens. I guess maybe this has been fixed?

In the backends that I control, and aren’t required to make available to any and all, I use headers.

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bch 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> an open-source application framework, was that hosting that used FastCGI, would not honor Auth headers

So you were writing your application as a fcgi-app, and (e.g.) Apache was bungling Auth headers? Can you expand on this? Curious about the technical detail of (I guess) PARAM records not actually giving you what you expect?

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t remember, exactly. Long time ago (I stepped away from that project many years ago). I just remember the auth headers never showing up in the $_SERVER global (it was a PHP app). This was what I was told was the issue. They made it sound like it was well-known.