Reflecting on the existence of httpsig.org

httpsig.org is a site with one sole purpose, to advocate for the adoption of RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures. It has a "Libraries" tab that does exactly what it advertises, it lists a bunch of libraries for you to use so you don't have to roll your own.

If you want to integrate AP today, but you don't want to roll your own everything, where do you go? Who do you ask?

All I know is:

• Fedify → Typescript (thanks @hongminhee@hollo.social!)
• FedBOX → Go (thanks @mariusor@metalhead.club!)[...]

Do we even have a list sorted by language? This would be huge. What other AP frameworks do you know of?

Granted, I didn't do a lot of thinking and deep diving before I listed those two examples, but even then, that's 1 more example than is listed on https://activitypub.rocks, so I think I might be on to something here from a developer advocacy point of view.

If I were looking to integrate AP, one of the first conclusions I'd come to is that the protocol itself is fairly complex and a library or framework might help.

I don't think there is a list that plainly lists supported libraries by language.

@julian for the implementors of Go ActivityPub applications that need RFC9421 signatures, it's important to note that it's not FedBOX that provides the functionality, but two modules in the GoActivityPub library:

* the **client** module[1] wraps the signing of activities.
* the **auth** module[2] wraps the verification functionality.

Also for lower level use, there's the underlying module being wrapped by GoActivityPub: dadrus/httpsig [3]

[1] https://github.com/go-ap/client
[2] https://github.com/go-ap/auth
[3] https://github.com/dadrus/httpsig

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