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.