Questions tagged [webfinger]

WebFinger is a protocol to obtain information about people by just their e-mail address.

The WebFinger protocol is currently under development.

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What's the difference between LRDD discovery and Webfinger?

So I've been trying to understand WebFinger (RFC7033) and stumbled upon Web Host Metadata (RFC6415). As far as I can tell, they are both RFCs and solving the same problem in almost the same way. So if I wanted to lookup information about a person or…
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In ActivityPub, how do you get an inbox URL?

I know that servers communicate by POSTing to an inbox and outbox. But what's the URL for the inbox and outbox?
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Discover OpenID Connect Provider Issuer

In the OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 spec, section User Input using E-Mail Address Syntax they have this example: GET /.well-known/webfinger ?resource=acct%3Ajoe%40example.com &rel=http%3A%2F%2Fopenid.net%2Fspecs%2Fconnect%2F1.0%2Fissuer …
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WebFinger library for PHP?

My goal is to retrieve the OpenID identity provider for a given e-mail address, and so I'm looking for a WebFinger library written in PHP. Unfortunately I fail to find a suitable one. The lib should be PEAR-installable and be usable standalone, or…
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Logging in with WebFinger and OpenID

I am messing around with WebFinger and trying to create a small rails app that enables a user to log in using nothing but their WebFinger account. I can succesfully finger myself, and I get back an XRD file with the following snippet: Link…
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Can't find my user on my custom instance on search in mastodon

here is the implementation of webfinger I did https://wildleague.org/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:ropoko@wildleague.org why I can't find this user on searching in mastodon? I tried changing some fields, like followers, id, url, that I thought…
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How to use ADFS Webfinger Endpoint?

I'm very new to ADFS and the Web Application Proxy. That said, I've recently setup an ADFS server and a WAP server and have all of the configuration setup to successfully handle SAML SSO to my custom application. I am now attempting to use the…
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