Helge<p>It behaves exactly like I would expect it to. It returns the appropriate format given the accept type of the request. Why should this cause problems?</p>
<p>It can only make things better as 3rd party client apps that cannot deal with it, might be encouraged to set proper accept types.</p>
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>Weird — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pleroma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pleroma</span></a> 's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebFinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebFinger</span></a> can return (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XML</span></a> based) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XRD</span></a> data (rather than just (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JSON" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JSON</span></a> based) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JRD</span></a> data).</p><p>I think the expectation from IETF <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC7033" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RFC7033</span></a> is that — WebFinger returns JRD (i.e., JSON Resource Descriptor format).</p><p>...</p><p>I wonder if this causes any problems with any 3rd party client apps.</p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>As far as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> 's usage of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebFinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebFinger</span></a> is concerned —</p><p>Fediverse software (including Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey, Pleroma, Lemmy, etc) don't seem to use the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JRD</span></a> “property” element.</p><p>But if any of them ever do — since the "type" is supposed to be a URI — I think it would be better to use something like a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tagURI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tagURI</span></a> or something like it (rather than an HTTP(S)-URI).</p><p>Else it may suffer from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linkRot</span></a> (just like ostatus·org has).</p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>Using Web Host Metadata's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XRD</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JRD</span></a> to figure out where <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebFinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebFinger</span></a> is seems unnecessarily complex to me.</p><p>(This is used by some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> software.)</p><p>...</p><p>/.well-known/host-meta</p><p>/.well-known/host-meta.json</p><p>...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC6415" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RFC6415</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC7033" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RFC7033</span></a></p>
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