offpunk and reddit
==================

i've spent today doing a bit of troubleshooting around reddit if
you try and visit the site via old.reddit.com you'll get this 
error

OP>  go https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/
ERROR6: Bad SSL certificate:

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='teddit.net', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /r/aww/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_INTERNAL_ERROR] tlsv1 alert internal error (_ssl.c:1028)')))

i've omitted the rest of the error message as it's pretty much
saying the same thing, there's something wrong with teddit's 
certs. i found out that teddit.net[1] was a reddit proxy focussed
on privacy. sadly it's been abandoned since reddit made their api
private.

after chatting with ploum on the mailing list[2], i was told 
about the `redirect` command.

unfortunately it appears to be the default redirect for offpunk

OP> redirect
Current redirections:
--------------------
*reddit.com     ->      teddit.net

the fix is easy enough

OP> redirect *reddit.com old.reddit.com

now you should be able to browse your cute content, aww.

but, wait that's not all!

if you take your url and add .rss you get the rss feed so r/aww
should look like this https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/.rss. yup
you can now subcribe to the rss feed[3]! i'm still getting my head
around how news feeds work in offpunk (i'm evaluating it 
alongside newsboat[4]).

the only downside with overriding redirects is that they don't
persist. as soon as i can work out how to do this along with
updating other config settings i'll do a follow up post.

tags: offpunk, reddit, rss, newsboat

[1] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
[2] mailto:~lioploum/offpunk-users@lists.sr.ht
[3] gemini://offpunk.net/subscriptions.gmi
[4] https://newsboat.org/index.html