Posts with keyword: webfinger

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Building a Webfinger Client for my Personal Cloud

Tue Oct 16 14:19:00 2012

This post shows how the Webfinger client for the Kynetx CloudOS allows you to link two personal clouds. The post also shows how the client was built.
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Discovery: Webfinger and OpenID Connect

Tue Nov 2 15:23:00 2010

I'm sitting in a session on webfinger, OpenID Connect, and discovery session. Discovery is a the process of turning a small piece of information (like a user ID) into the URLs and APIs needed to service some specific request. For example, say I tell you my email address is windley@gmail.com, how do you find my profile? Of course, as long as we're talking about one site, like Google, we can just hard code that translation. But how can the discovery problem be generalized? That's the goal of Webfinger: WebFinger is about making email addresses more valuable, by letting people
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