Re: [webfinger] Is application/json an acceptable content type for JRDs?

On 13 October 2013 00:28, Eric Mill <eric@konklone.com> wrote:

> I've been reading through the Webfinger spec, and it uses
> application/jrd+json in all the examples, and describes the media type it's
> registering -- but it never says whether or not a server using
> application/json as a content type should fail or not.
>
> I could potentially see some servers wishing to use application/json, so
> that applications that are used for all kinds of JSON manipulation, like
> JSONView, could properly pick up on it.
>

My interpretation is that the server must set Mime Type
application/jrd+json if it's serving JRD, which is the only mandatory
serialization.  Previously there was an XML format (XRD) which is still in
use in some places.

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