From 4955863bb8b7e3a7f25ecca89a1017732f5891c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven <sgiersig@icloud.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:18:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(startup): add empty body and timeout to webmention poller
 curl

The bodyless POST (no Content-Type/Content-Length) caused curl error 52
(empty reply from server). Adding `-d ""` sends proper headers and
`--max-time 300` prevents hangs on long-running webmention processing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 start.example.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/start.example.sh b/start.example.sh
index e6164e8c..7097f7c2 100644
--- a/start.example.sh
+++ b/start.example.sh
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ WEBMENTION_ORIGIN="${PUBLICATION_URL:-${SITE_URL:-}}"
     )"
 
     if [ -n "$TOKEN" ]; then
-      RESULT="$(curl -sS -X POST "${WEBMENTION_ENDPOINT}?token=${TOKEN}" 2>&1 || true)"
+      RESULT="$(curl -sS --max-time 300 -X POST -d "" "${WEBMENTION_ENDPOINT}?token=${TOKEN}" 2>&1 || true)"
       echo "[webmention] $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - ${RESULT:-ok}"
     else
       echo "[webmention] $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - token generation failed"