Context URLs are redirects to GitHub and do not return context files.

[BigBlueHat]

I was exploring some of the examples in the VEX spec and trying to use them on the JSON-LD Playground, but quickly found that the context URL used in the examples and the spec does not dereference properly as it redirects to this repo.

The Playground says:

Dereferencing a URL did not result in a valid JSON-LD object. Possible causes are an inaccessible URL perhaps due to a same-origin policy (ensure the server uses CORS if you are using client-side JavaScript), too many redirects, a non-JSON response, or more than one HTTP Link Header was provided for a remote context. URL: "https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0".

Since the domain is owned by this group, it's hopefully an easy fix--especially if you put something like Cloudflare in front of your Squarespace hosting so you could further manage headers and redirects.

The end result should be that https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0 responds with (or redirects to) the latest context.json file which in this case is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openvex/spec/refs/heads/main/ns/v0.2.0/context.json

There are also options with using Link header retrieval, but that's trickier to setup than a raw redirect (which is where something like Cloudflare comes in handy).

At any rate, I wanted (as one of the JSON-LD WG Chairs) to offer support to help improve the DevEx.

Cheers!
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