FW: another webfinger prototype implementation update ...

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

This is live (but experimental and very alpha) over at Gmail… Yeah, that’s XRD in action.

 

The Subject URI is still being discussed.

 

EHL

 

From: webfinger@googlegroups.com [mailto:webfinger@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brad Fitzpatrick
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:59 PM
To: webfinger@googlegroups.com
Subject: another webfinger prototype implementation update ...

 

Another version, after discussions with Eran:

 

What's new:

-- Improved user XRD document

-- Start of FOAF RDF support

 

Demos:  (now with curl, since these aren't necessarily pretty in browsers now....)

$ curl -i 'http://www.google.com/s2/webfinger/?q=bradfitz@gmail.com'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/xrd+xml

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:55:04 GMT

Expires: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:55:04 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Server: GFE/2.0

 

<?xml version='1.0'?>

<XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'>

 <Subject>acct://bradfitz@gmail.com</Subject>

 <Alias>http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz</Alias>

 <Link>

  <Rel>http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0</Rel>

  <URI>http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/</URI>

 </Link>

 <Link>

  <Rel>http://webfinger.info/rel/profile-page</Rel>

  <Rel>describedby</Rel>

  <MediaType>text/html</MediaType>

  <URI>http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz</URI>

 </Link>

 <Link>

  <Rel>describedby</Rel>

  <MediaType>text/x-foo</MediaType>

  <URI>http://s2.googleusercontent.com/webfinger/?q=bradfitz%40gmail.com&amp;fmt=foo</URI>

 </Link>

 <Link>

  <Rel>describedby</Rel>

  <MediaType>application/rdf+xml</MediaType>

  <URI>http://s2.googleusercontent.com/webfinger/?q=bradfitz%40gmail.com&amp;fmt=foaf</URI>

 </Link>

</XRD>

 

 

$ curl -i 'http://s2.googleusercontent.com/webfinger/?q=bradfitz%40gmail.com&fmt=foaf'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/rdf+xml

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:57:02 GMT

Expires: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:57:02 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Server: GFE/2.0

 

<?xml version='1.0'?>

<RDF xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>

 <Person xmlns='http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/'>

  <nick>bradfitz</nick>

  <name>Brad Fitzpatrick</name>

 </Person>

</RDF>

 

 

Feedback welcome!