Thanks for checking!

I was actually testing an invalid login, where it says “connection error” instead of “invalid login credentials” because the backend error isn’t sent due to a CORS issue.

After attempting login with piefed.social vs feddit.online, here’s the screenshots. See the “CORS missing origin” error under trasnferred column for feddit.online. Also the lack of access-control-allow-* headers compared to piefed.social.

Jerry your Cloudflare is getting in the way. When I go to feddit.online and run this JS in my browser dev tools I get a 403 and a bunch of gibberish from Cloudflare in my console:

fetch('/api/alpha/user/login', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    username: 'testuser',
    password: 'secretpassword'
  })
})
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(text => {
    console.log('Raw response:', text);
    try {
      const json = JSON.parse(text);
      console.log('Parsed JSON:', json);
    } catch (err) {
      console.error('Failed to parse JSON:', err);
    }
  })
  .catch(error => console.error('Fetch error:', error));

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