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@ace:kittenface.studio and @grin:grin.hu pointed out that the way the federation tester displays how a server was discovered can be confusing.
@ace:kittenface.studio says that instead of having individual lines saying that well-known wasn't found or an SRV record wasn't found it would be better to say which method was used to discover the server. For example something like
Server was discovered via .well-known and SRV
or
Server was discovered directly on port 8448
That way an admin who thought they had setup a correct well-known file, but saw the server was only discovered using the SRV record for example would know that something was wrong with their well-known file. Using something like this, server admins who don't need a well-known (or don't need an SRV) wouldn't be confused that they were missing some required thing which a lot of people seem to think when they see well-known not found in the federation tester currently.
While I agree that presenting it this way would be much clearer, "reworking" makes me think of ditching all of the existing and replacing it with something else.
I'd rather have, let's say, an additional resolution_flow property at the top-level of the report which would have an array of strings as its value (["srv"] for SRV, [".well-known"] for .well-known, [".well-known", "srv"] for SRV of a .well-known result, etc). wdyt?
@ace:kittenface.studio
and@grin:grin.hu
pointed out that the way the federation tester displays how a server was discovered can be confusing.@ace:kittenface.studio
says that instead of having individual lines saying that well-known wasn't found or an SRV record wasn't found it would be better to say which method was used to discover the server. For example something likeServer was discovered via .well-known and SRV
or
Server was discovered directly on port 8448
That way an admin who thought they had setup a correct well-known file, but saw the server was only discovered using the SRV record for example would know that something was wrong with their well-known file. Using something like this, server admins who don't need a well-known (or don't need an SRV) wouldn't be confused that they were missing some required thing which a lot of people seem to think when they see well-known not found in the federation tester currently.
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Moved from a comment in #70
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