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

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

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 being example.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

 

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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 <http://example.com/> " but the host of discovery
endpoint is "example.com <http://example.com/> ", not "p1.example.com
<http://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