Title: Connect to Mastodon using HTTP 1.0 with Brutaldon

	Title: Connect to Mastodon using HTTP 1.0 with Brutaldon
	Author: Solène
	Date: 09 November 2020
	Tags: openbsd mastodon
	Description:

	Today post is about
	[Brutaldon](https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/brutaldon), a
	Mastodon/Pleroma interface in old fashion HTML like in the web 1.0
	era. I will explain how it works and how to install it. Tested and
	approved on an 16 years old powerpc laptop, using Mastodon with w3m
	or dillo web browsers!


	## Introduction

	Brutaldon is a mastodon client running as a web server. This mean you
	have to connect to a running brutaldon server, you can use a public
	one like [Brutaldon.online](https://brutaldon.online) and then you
	will have two ways to connect to your account:

	1. using oauth which will redirect through a dedicated API page of
	your mastodon instance and will give back a token once you logged
	in properly, this is totally safe of use, but requires javascript
	to be enabled to works due to the login page on the instance
	2. there is "old login" method in which you have to provide your
	instance address, your account login and password. This is not
	really safe because the brutaldon instance will known about your
	credentials, but you can use any web browser with that. There are
	not much security issues if you use a local brutaldon instance


	## How to install it

	The installation is quite easy, I wish this could be as easy more
	often. You need a python3 interpreter and `pipenv`. If you don't have
	pipenv, you need `pip` to install `pipenv`. On OpenBSD this would
	translates as:

	$ pip3.8 install --user pipenv

	Note that on some system, pip3.8 could be pip3, or pip. Due to the
	coexistence of python2 and python3 for some time until we can get ride
	of python2, most python related commands have a suffix to tell which
	python version it uses.

	**If you install pipenv with pip, the path will be
	`~/.local/bin/pipenv`.**

	Now, very easy to proceed! Clone the code, run pipenv to get the
	dependencies, create a sqlite database and run the server.

	$ git clone git://github.com/jfmcbrayer/brutaldon.git
	$ cd brutaldon
	$ pipenv install
	$ pipenv run python ./manage.py migrate
	$ pipenv run python ./manage.py runserver

	And voilà! Your brutaldon instance is available on
	[http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000), you only need to open
	it on your web browser and log-in to your instance.

	As explained in the `INSTALL.md` file of the project, this method
	isn't suitable for a public deployment. The code is a Django webapp
	and could be used with wsgi and a proper web server. This setup is
	beyond the scope of this article.