auth and curl

Yesterday early in the morning, with the help of Claude, I finally figured out what prevented me from logging into indieweb.org. It was something stupid really, one of those things that most people who register their own domains will probably understand. IndieWeb uses IndieAuth for members to sign in. IndieAuth, to put it in simple words1, uses your website to sign in rather than the usual username/password combo that we see everywhere. IndieWeb is all about folks who build their own websites, so it makes sense to use your own indie website to sign in to their site. Obviously the simple words above are too simple to explain how this actually works, but the core idea is that you add a specific HTML tag (it’s called a REL tag, or a rel HTML attribute) to your main page on your website and then IndieWeb knows it’s really you. The problem I had was that I tried to sign in using my website’s URL, www.taonaw.com, instead of taonaw.com. I wanted to use the www, because that’s the actual…