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

So if I'm writing a client, and I get an application/json Content Type, it
should fail? Since the spec doesn't seem to explicitly mandate this, and
the content *is* valid JSON, this seems a bit restrictive to me.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

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