Re: [webfinger] Question about device info discovery example.

[nov matake <[e-mail]>]

OK,

Then basically webfinger clients MUST use the host of resource parameter (at least when using acct, mailto, http and https schema),
but extension spec MAY define another rule and in that case, client MUST follow the extension's rule.

Is it right?

Or webfinger itself doesn't specify anything for host usage?
(It just define path "/.well-known/webfinger" and schema "https", but not host?)

On 2012/12/22, at 13:57, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Nov,
>  
> Keep in mind that this is an entirely fictional example.  There isn’t even a URI scheme called “device”.
>  
> The answer to your question would come from a document (if it existed, but does not) that describes the “device” URI and how to use it within the context of WebFinger.
>  
> My thinking when I wrote this is that there are named devices on the network and one would query the parent domain to learn about the device.  The parent in this case beingexample.com.  It might be that there is a designated host that serves as the device info server called “devices.example.com” to which all queries are directed.  In any case, this is completely unspecified and the example is there only to illustrate the range of use for WebFinger.  It should not be viewed in any way as proper usage, though.
>  
> Paul
>  
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of nov matake
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:40 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [webfinger] Question about device info discovery example.
>  
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to this ML.
> 
> I'm writing a ruby webfinger library.
> https://rubygems.org/gems/webfinger
> 
> After reading usecases in section 3, I have a question.
> 
> In the device info discovery example in section 3.4, resource is "device:p1.example.com" but the host of discovery endpoint is "example.com", not "p1.example.com".
> Is there any reason why these hosts are different?
> How did the client decide the host of the discovery endpoint from resource URI?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nov Matake