The 11.4 harness — e2e/federation/: postgres (two DBs) + a Caddy with
an internal CA terminating real HTTPS between two complete journal
containers (journal-a.test / journal-b.test), driven by an opt-in
integration test (FEDERATION_TWO_INSTANCE=1, via run.sh). The driver
seeds users straight into each DB, mints a signed session cookie
(known SESSION_SECRET), follows across instances through the real
/follows/outgoing route, and asserts the full pipeline: Follow →
auto-Accept → settle → first outbox poll → bob's public activity
rendered in alice's /feed with @bob@journal-b.test attribution. Plus a
wire-level 11.3 check: unsigned Create(Note) → 4xx, no DB writes.
And the harness immediately earned its keep — it caught a real
trails↔trails bug Mastodon interop never could: our Follow ids are
fragment URIs on OUR domain, so the Follow embedded in another trails
instance's Accept is cross-origin and Fedify rightly distrusts it;
re-fetching the id returns the actor document, getObject() yields a
Person, and the Accept/Reject/Undo listeners bailed silently — follows
stayed Pending forever. The listeners now fall back to the wire
objectId (captured BEFORE getObject(), which memoizes the fetched
document and changes what objectId reports) validated against our
Follow-id shape + the personal inbox's ctx.recipient. Forgery-safe:
settleOutgoingFollow only matches a Pending row toward the
HTTP-Signature-authenticated sender.
Supporting changes:
- federation.server.ts: env-gated allowPrivateAddress
(FEDERATION_ALLOW_PRIVATE_ADDRESS=true) so the harness's RFC 1918
Docker network is fetchable — testing only, loudly documented.
- Root .dockerignore: local builds shipped a 1GB+ context and
overlaid host (darwin) node_modules over the image's own install
via COPY . . — CI never noticed because it builds from clean
checkouts. Context is now ~5MB.
- tasks.md: 11.1–11.7 marked with provenance notes; design.md gains
the cross-origin embedded-object lesson.
Gate: typecheck ✓ lint ✓ unit+integration (FEDERATION_INTEGRATION=1) ✓
e2e 71/72 + known komoot flake green isolated ✓ harness run clean from
scratch (2/2, teardown included) ✓
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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