WebFinger
draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-11
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Network Working Group Paul E. Jones
Internet Draft Gonzalo Salgueiro
Intended status: Standards Track Cisco Systems
Expires: September 8, 2013 Joseph Smarr
Google
March 8, 2013
WebFinger
draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-11.txt
Abstract
This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be used
to discover information about people or other entities on the
Internet using standard HTTP methods. WebFinger discovers
information for a URI that might not be usable as a locator
otherwise, such as account or email URIs.
Status of this Memo
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................2
2. Terminology....................................................3
3. Example Uses of WebFinger......................................3
3.1. Locating a User's Blog....................................3
3.2. Identity Provider Discovery for OpenID Connect............5
3.3. Auto-Configuration of Email Clients.......................6
3.4. Retrieving Device Information.............................7
4. WebFinger Protocol.............................................8
4.1. Constructing a WebFinger Request URI......................8
4.2. Performing a WebFinger Query..............................9
4.3. The "rel" Parameter.......................................9
4.4. The JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD).......................11
4.4.1. subject.............................................11
4.4.2. aliases.............................................12
4.4.3. properties..........................................12
4.4.4. links...............................................12
4.5. WebFinger and URIs.......................................14
5. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)..........................15
6. Access Control................................................15
7. Hosted WebFinger Services.....................................16
8. Security Considerations.......................................17
9. IANA Considerations...........................................18
9.1. Well-Known URI...........................................18
9.2. JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD) Media Type................18
10. Acknowledgments..............................................20
11. References...................................................20
11.1. Normative References....................................20
11.2. Informative References..................................21
Author's Addresses...............................................22
1. Introduction
WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other
entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI [6] or IRI [7]
using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) [2] methods over a
secure transport [14]. A WebFinger resource returns a JavaScript
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