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Standard addresses Optional

Answer account lookups

If you have accounts that others look up, answer /.well-known/webfinger queries.

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

Answer ?resource=acct:… with a JRD document, a small JSON file about the account. Send it as application/jrd+json, with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *.

Example

GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:ana@example.com HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
{
  "subject": "acct:ana@example.com",
  "links": [
    { "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://example.com/team/ana" }
  ]
}

How to check

A WebFinger client finds an account.

For agents: if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in Based on the Agent Wranglers website playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/standard-addresses/webfinger.