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

["Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>]

Yeah, I think the "be conservative with what you send and liberal with 
what you accept" comes to play here, as with most protocols. Servers are 
required to use application/jrd+json, but it's probably best if clients 
did not rely on that media type being returned. Just try to parse it.  
It either will or will not parse correctly.

Paul

On 10/12/2013 7:56 PM, Will Norris wrote:
> 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 <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> 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.
>
>
>     On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Melvin Carvalho
>     <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>         On 13 October 2013 00:28, Eric Mill <[e-mail]
>         <mailto:[e-mail]>> 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.
>
>
>             -- Eric
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