Re: [apps-discuss] Webfinger / SWD Issue #3: direct versus indirect discovery

[John Bradley <[e-mail]>]

It is not my assumption.   

From a practical point of view with openID Connect, you couldn't host a IdP on a server that only supports static pages.

I think that Paul's example of a site supporting
curl -v https://packetizer.com/.well-known/host-meta.json?resource=acct:[e-mail]

Is the bar.   There are several ways to do that, so I don't think it is unreasonable.

John B.

On 2012-04-23, at 3:34 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> Picking on a minor point here...
> 
> On 4/23/12 12:27 PM, John Bradley wrote:
> 
>> That way large sites can optimize and small sites could still use static
>> files.
> 
> Is there evidence for the assumption that large services will serve
> their data via an API whereas small services will serve their data via
> static files? It seems clear to me that many small services might not
> host static files, e.g., because they use a content management system or
> community software application that automatically pulls data out of a
> database of users and serves up some of that information in the form
> defined by the WebFinger spec (or SWD or whatever). I rather doubt that
> large services will host static files, but let's not base our design
> decisions on a false premise about smaller services.
> 
> Peter
> 
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