Improve the debug mode

README.md

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ $ pip install -r requirements.txt
 # Start the Celery worker, RabbitMQ and MongoDB
 $ docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d
 # Run the server locally
-$ FLASK_APP=app.py flask run -p 5005 --with-threads
+$ MICROBLOGPUB_DEBUG=1 FLASK_APP=app.py flask run -p 5005 --with-threads
 ```
 
 ## Contributions

docker-compose-tests.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ services:
     environment:
      - MICROBLOGPUB_AMQP_BROKER=pyamqp://guest@rmq//
      - MICROBLOGPUB_MONGODB_HOST=mongo:27017
+     - MICROBLOGPUB_DEBUG=1
   celery:
     build: .
     links:

utils/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def strtobool(s: str) -> bool:
+    if s in ['y', 'yes', 'true', 'on', '1']:
+        return True
+    if s in ['n', 'no', 'false', 'off', '0']:
+        return False
+
+    raise ValueError(f'cannot convert {s} to bool')

utils/urlutils.py

@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
 import logging
+import os
 import socket
 import ipaddress
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
+from . import strtobool
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def is_url_valid(url):
+def is_url_valid(url: str) -> bool:
     parsed = urlparse(url)
     if parsed.scheme not in ['http', 'https']:
         return False
 
+    # XXX in debug mode, we want to allow requests to localhost to test the federation with local instances
+    debug_mode = strtobool(os.getenv('MICROBLOGPUB_DEBUG', 'false'))
+    if debug_mode:
+        return True
+
     if parsed.hostname in ['localhost']:
         return False