- From: ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:08:06 +0200
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- CC: public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
On 05/17/2014 11:36 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > So it originally looked something like this > > /.well-known/webfinger?subject=user@host > > But then there was confusion ... was user@host the subject or the > object. It was decided that user@host (ie mailto:) was the object. > Which left the awkward question, what's the subject? To tackle this the > idea was that users have "accounts" at websites. So a new URI scheme > was minted acct:user@host, which would be the subject of the query. > > So now you go to > > /.well-known/webfinger?subject=acct:user@host s/subject/resource/ /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:user@host http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#section-3.1
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