{"revision":"6ba549855354e504","language":"en","entry":{"id":"read-move","kind":"endpoint","group":"manage","title":"Read a move","method":"GET","path":"/v1/moves/{nonce}","paths":[],"summary":"Whether a move is still open, and its key. Never its card, nor whether it was approved.","response":"200 with nonce, key, open and expiresAt.","parameters":[{"name":"nonce","description":"The move's nonce: 22 characters of base64url.","in":"path","required":true}],"sample":"/v1/moves/MOVE_NONCE","access":"public","base":"directory","notes":["Moving a browser from the directory's old address to its new one (since 6 November 2026): a key lives on the origin that made it, so the new address makes a key of its own and the card adds it with a version signed at the old address, in the same browser. The version is kept until the new key comes back with the secret."],"errors":["400 invalid_parameter","400 wrong_format","404 no_move","404 not_found","500 internal_error","503 busy"],"related":["signed-requests"],"live":false,"responseObjects":[],"errorFormat":"json","errorDetails":[{"status":400,"code":"invalid_parameter","description":"A path, query or body field is missing, malformed or outside its accepted range.","action":"Correct the field named in `error.message` before sending again.","scope":"endpoint"},{"status":400,"code":"wrong_format","description":"The request or the read belongs to the other log format than this server’s: a v1 record on a format 2 log, or a format 2 read on a format 1 log.","action":"Read `format` in GET /v1/log (absent means 1) and send the shape of that format.","scope":"endpoint"},{"status":404,"code":"no_move","description":"This directory has one address, so there is no browser to move.","action":"Make a card or log in at this address.","scope":"endpoint"},{"status":404,"code":"not_found","description":"The requested card, key, alias, code or resource was not found.","action":"Check the identifier. Temporary codes and previews may already have expired or been used.","scope":"endpoint"},{"status":500,"code":"internal_error","description":"An unexpected server error occurred. Internal details are not returned.","action":"Retry reads with bounded backoff. Check write results before sending a new signed operation.","scope":"endpoint"},{"status":503,"code":"busy","description":"The application has reached a temporary concurrency or database limit.","action":"Wait `Retry-After` seconds and retry with bounded backoff.","scope":"endpoint"}],"sections":[{"kind":"code","language":"shell","code":"curl -fsS 'https://veil.pub/v1/moves/MOVE_NONCE'"}],"responses":[{"status":200,"contentType":"application/json","description":"200 with nonce, key, open and expiresAt.","fields":[{"name":"nonce","type":"string","description":"The move."},{"name":"key","type":"string","description":"The new key."},{"name":"open","type":"boolean","description":"True until it is published or expires, approved or not."},{"name":"expiresAt","type":"string","description":"When it closes."}]}],"responseHeaders":[{"name":"Content-Type","value":"application/json","description":"Use the declared media type before choosing a parser."},{"name":"Date","value":"HTTP date","description":"Server time. Compare it with your clock when signing requests."},{"name":"Cache-Control","value":"no-store","description":"Do not persist private or temporary responses in a shared cache."},{"name":"Retry-After","value":"integer seconds, on rate_limited or busy","description":"Wait at least this long before retrying. Other 429/503 codes do not necessarily include it."}],"bodyFields":[],"documentationUrl":"https://veil.pub/docs/read-move","supportsBrowserFetch":false,"browserMode":"local-or-server"}}