Share a verification preview

Share a signed message with a server-generated social preview.

GET/v/{n}/{signature}

Access: Public access
Client: Open as a page

Parameters#

Name	Location	Meaning
`n`Required	Path	Permanent positive card number.
`signature`Required	Path	Base64url of the 64 signature bytes, without padding. Server previews support Ed25519.
`m`Required	Query	Base64url of the exact message’s UTF-8 bytes, without padding. At most 1500 decoded bytes.
`lang`	Query	en or it. English is the default.

Request examples#

cURL

curl -fsS 'https://veil.rip/v/1/SIGNATURE?m=MESSAGE'

Build the encoded values from the signed bytes. The message is not plain text in the query. For composite signatures or longer messages, use the fragment link on /verify.

Response#

HTTP 200text/html

The browser verification page plus social metadata calculated by the server. The message is sent to the server.

Response headers#

Header	Value	Meaning
`Content-Type`	`text/html`	Use the declared media type before choosing a parser.
`Date`	`HTTP date`	Server time. Compare it with your clock when signing requests.
`Retry-After`	`integer seconds, on rate_limited or busy`	Wait at least this long before retrying. Other 429/503 codes do not necessarily include it.

Errors#

API errors return an error object. Use error.code for program logic; error.message is English text for people and can change. Response and error guide

HTTP Code Meaning and next step

404

HTTP	Code	Meaning and next step
404	`not_found`	The requested card, key, alias, code or resource was not found. Check the identifier. Temporary codes and previews may already have expired or been used.

not_found

The requested card, key, alias, code or resource was not found.

Check the identifier. Temporary codes and previews may already have expired or been used.

Shared request errors

HTTP Code Meaning and next step

429

HTTP	Code	Meaning and next step
429	`rate_limited`	An anonymous, signed-request or API-key allowance was exceeded. Wait at least `Retry-After` seconds. Share a queue and retry budget across your workers.
500	`internal_error`	An unexpected server error occurred. Internal details are not returned. Retry reads with bounded backoff. Check write results before sending a new signed operation.
503	`busy`	The application has reached a temporary concurrency or database limit. Wait `Retry-After` seconds and retry with bounded backoff.

rate_limited

An anonymous, signed-request or API-key allowance was exceeded.

Wait at least Retry-After seconds. Share a queue and retry budget across your workers.

500

internal_error

An unexpected server error occurred. Internal details are not returned.

Retry reads with bounded backoff. Check write results before sending a new signed operation.

503

busy

The application has reached a temporary concurrency or database limit.

Wait Retry-After seconds and retry with bounded backoff.

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