Done via the following command: git diff 1e6c102bfc --stat --name-only | cat - | xargs sed -i 's/2017-2018 Pleroma Authors/2017-2019 Pleroma Authors/'
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the redundant checks assumed a POST request, which will not work for signed GETs. this check was originally needed because the HTTPSignatures adapter assumed that the requests were also POST requests. but now, the adapter has been corrected.