Webfinger
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WebFinger is a protocol on the Internet that aims to provide information about people by their E-mail addresses.[1] It moves the old UNIX Finger protocol to the web by relying on HTTP only.[2]
It provides meta data about the user behind the E-mail address, for example public encryption keys and OpenIDs.
The WebFinger protocol is used by the federated social networks StatusNet[3] and Diaspora[4] to discover users on federated nodes and pods as well as the remotestorage protocol[5] used by e.g. ownCloud.[6]
References [edit]
- ^ Introducing Webfinger
- ^ Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID.
- ^ Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet
- ^ How Diaspora Connects Users
- ^ remotestorage specification
- ^ Unhosted project
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