Tweak remote instance redirection

app/main.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import base64
-import html
 import os
 import sys
 import time
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ from starlette.background import BackgroundTask
 from starlette.datastructures import Headers
 from starlette.datastructures import MutableHeaders
 from starlette.exceptions import HTTPException as StarletteHTTPException
-from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
 from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
 from starlette.types import Message
 from uvicorn.middleware.proxy_headers import ProxyHeadersMiddleware  # type: ignore
@@ -256,7 +254,11 @@ class ActivityPubResponse(JSONResponse):
     media_type = "application/activity+json"
 
 
-class HTMLRedirectResponse(HTMLResponse):
+async def redirect_to_remote_instance(
+    request: Request,
+    db_session: AsyncSession,
+    url: str,
+) -> templates.TemplateResponse:
     """
     Similar to RedirectResponse, but uses a 200 response with HTML.
 
@@ -264,15 +266,16 @@ class HTMLRedirectResponse(HTMLResponse):
     since our CSP policy disallows remote form submission.
     https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/issues/8#issuecomment-810108984
     """
-
+    return await templates.render_template(
-    def __init__(
+        db_session,
-        self,
+        request,
-        url: str,
+        "redirect_to_remote_instance.html",
-    ) -> None:
+        {
-        super().__init__(
+            "request": request,
-            content=f'<a href="{html.escape(url)}">Continue to remote resource</a>',
+            "url": url,
-            headers={"Refresh": "0;url=" + url},
+        },
-        )
+        headers={"Refresh": "0;url=" + url},
+    )
 
 
 @app.get(config.NavBarItems.NOTES_PATH)
@@ -980,9 +983,10 @@ async def get_remote_follow(
 @app.post("/remote_follow")
 async def post_remote_follow(
     request: Request,
+    db_session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db_session),
     csrf_check: None = Depends(verify_csrf_token),
     profile: str = Form(),
-) -> HTMLRedirectResponse:
+) -> templates.TemplateResponse:
     if not profile.startswith("@"):
         profile = f"@{profile}"
 
@@ -991,7 +995,9 @@ async def post_remote_follow(
         # TODO(ts): error message to user
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404)
 
-    return HTMLRedirectResponse(
+    return await redirect_to_remote_instance(
+        request,
+        db_session,
         remote_follow_template.format(uri=ID),
     )
 
@@ -1020,10 +1026,11 @@ async def remote_interaction(
 @app.post("/remote_interaction")
 async def post_remote_interaction(
     request: Request,
+    db_session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db_session),
     csrf_check: None = Depends(verify_csrf_token),
     profile: str = Form(),
     ap_id: str = Form(),
-) -> RedirectResponse:
+) -> templates.TemplateResponse:
     if not profile.startswith("@"):
         profile = f"@{profile}"
 
@@ -1032,9 +1039,10 @@ async def post_remote_interaction(
         # TODO(ts): error message to user
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404)
 
-    return RedirectResponse(
+    return await redirect_to_remote_instance(
-        remote_follow_template.format(uri=ap_id),
+        request,
-        status_code=302,
+        db_session,
+        remote_follow_template.format(uri=ID),
     )
 
 

app/templates.py

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ async def render_template(
     template: str,
     template_args: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
     status_code: int = 200,
+    headers: dict[str, str] | None = None,
 ) -> TemplateResponse:
     if template_args is None:
         template_args = {}
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ async def render_template(
             **template_args,
         },
         status_code=status_code,
+        headers=headers,
     )
 
 

app/templates/redirect_to_remote_instance.html

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{%- import "utils.html" as utils with context -%}
+{% extends "layout.html" %}
+
+{% block head %}
+<title>{{ local_actor.display_name }}'s microblog - Redirect</title>
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block content %}
+{% include "header.html" %}
+
+<div class="box">
+    <p>You are being redirected to your instance: <a href="{{ url }}">{{ url }}</a></p>
+</div>
+
+{% endblock %}