activitypub Implement Webfinger profile discovery

The ActivityPub spec doesn't cover profile discovery. However, per ActivityPub? Well, it’s not that bad:

Most current implementers have integrated Webfinger for that purpose, since users like to work with handles rather than URLs. So although not explicitly specified, this is a fine solution for the problem.

For example, Webfinger is implemented in Mastodon and is the recommended way to implement interoperability per this tutorial.

Dec 24 '19 23:12 nedjo

Ours is not the only use case, so probably need to post a stand-alone Webfinger module.

Jan 03 '20 05:01 nedjo

I've posted a first alpha release of a Webfinger module, https://www.drupal.org/project/webfinger. To integrate, we'll register an event subscriber similar to the one in the Webfinger module, https://git.drupalcode.org/project/webfinger/blob/8.x-1.x/src/EventSubscriber/WebfingerProfileSubscriber.php.

Mar 05 '20 00:03 nedjo