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

Will Norris <will@willnorris.com> Sat, 12 October 2013 23:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [webfinger] Is application/json an acceptable content type for JRDs?
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reading through some of the list archive (such as
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/webfinger/current/msg00395.html and
the rest of that thread), leads me to say that you *really* should use the
correct mime type.  I agree that for clients they probably should not fail
on application/json, but I certainly wouldn't rely on that behavior as a
publisher.  I wonder how hard it would be to get JSONView updated to accept
application/*+json in addition to application/json?


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Eric Mill <eric@konklone.com> wrote:

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