Re: Finding user profiles on a Social Net

Dnia wtorek, 11 czerwca 2013 o 12:55:11 Simon Tennant napisał(a):
> Hi Melvin
> 
> There's two problems to be solved.
> 
> 1. How to find the responsible server for a domain's social network. (Which
> server runs the social network functions for EXAMPLE.COM?)
> 2. How clients find their API endpoint (user@EXAMPLE.COM is trying to
> log-in on a new mobile-social-app, what API endpoint do I use for
> EXAMPLE.COM)
> 
> The first problem is solved using SRV records or webfinger or whatever
> 
> The second problem is solved using DNS-SD. The lookup is "magically"
> simple. In buddycloud's case the mobile client will do the following query:
> 
> dig -t TXT _buddycloud-api._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. +short
> 
> and get back the following easily parseable content:
> 
> "v=1.0" "host=demo.buddycloud.org" "protocol=https" "path=/api" "port=443"
> 
> To make this work you just need to add something like the following to your
> zone file.
> _buddycloud-api._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. IN TXT "v=1.0" "host=
> buddycloud.EXAMPLE.COM" "protocol=https" "path=/api" "port=443"
> 
> So for your app, just change _buddycloud-api to whatever you would
> like (and if you are creating new protocols, be nice and register them with
> IANA).

+1

That would be the best solution, but no social network software I know of 
implements it. Instead, webfinger is being used. :/

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