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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

P. Jones
G. Salgueiro
M. Jones
J. Smarr

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IETF

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appsawg (app)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7033

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Abstract

This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be usedto discover information about people or other entities on theInternet using standard HTTP methods. WebFinger discoversinformation for a URI that might not be usable as a locatorotherwise, such as account or email URIs.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.