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WebFinger client library for PHP

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License: LGPL

Description

Discover meta data about users by just their email address.
Discoverable data may be the user's OpenID, profile page URL,
link to portable contacts, hcard, foaf and other user pages.

Distributed social networks use WebFinger to distribute public encryption keys,
OStatus and Salmon URLs.

Package supports draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-13 and can fall back
to RFC 6415 (host-meta + lrdd).

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Christian Weiske (cweiske) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 5.3.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.9.0)
• XML_XRD (>= 0.3.0)

Optional

• Cache (>= 1.5.6)
• HTTP_Request2 (>= 2.0.0)

Releases

• 0.4.1 (alpha, 2024-03-10)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  - Fix user-agent header

• 0.4.0 (alpha, 2014-07-17)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  - Support RFC 7033 (final webfinger spec) with non-"acct:" URIs

• 0.3.2 (alpha, 2013-11-04)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  - Fix package.xml to validate against XSD #2

• 0.3.1 (alpha, 2013-11-03)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  - Fix package.xml to validate against XSD

• 0.3.0 (alpha, 2013-05-04)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  - Support draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-13
  - Nearly complete rework of the code

• 0.2.1 (alpha, 2012-03-03)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  The subject of the host-meta file may not be checked.

• 0.2.0 (alpha, 2012-02-24)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  foreach() iteration for links

Bugs