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Today I learned that the host-meta spec that I thought was completely abandoned when #webfinger was picked up by standardisation by another group than @blaine – that host-meta standard, which is published as #RFC6415 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6415) seems to actually be fully supported by Mastodon in addition to fully supporting the host-meta less webfinger #hostmeta
https://mastodon.social/@voxpelli/113288832327053547 -
"template" is defined in IETF #RFC6415 (i.e., Web Host Metadata / #hostMeta ).
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6415.html
#WebFinger 's IETF #RFC7033 mentions that here:
"The JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD), originally introduced in RFC 6415"
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Using Web Host Metadata's #XRD & #JRD to figure out where #WebFinger is seems unnecessarily complex to me.
(This is used by some #Fediverse software.)
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/.well-known/host-meta
/.well-known/host-meta.json
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If you are developing software for the #Fediverse then —
You need to understand #RFC6415
IETF RFC-6415 — Web Host Metadata
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6415.html.I.e.,:
/.well-known/host-meta
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