#social 2019-01-04

2019-01-04 UTC
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vasilakisfil I have heard many times that webfinger is not needed for activitypub, however I am wondering: how http signatures would work without a known location to retrieve the public key ?
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vasilakisfil what are the alternatives ?
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aaronpk I thought webfinger wasn't involved in finding a key of an account
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aaronpk finding the key is fetching the actor URL and the key is listed there?
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aaronpk Webfinger just translates user@host syntax to a URL
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vasilakisfil yes you are right my bad
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vasilakisfil ok I rushed, apparently from the actor url you can announce your public key among other things, indeed webfinger is kind of unecessary
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vasilakisfil I guess if you support webfinger it's easier to mention someone in the form or @username@my-server.org ?
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vasilakisfil I think the actor url that AP defines is very useful, especially for HTTP signatures. I mean you could building somethng in SIP and you can use that mechanism (by instructing a client to have an AP actor url) for specifying the SIP signature (although no rfc defines those headers).
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rialtate[m] Well urls are one of the oldest internet standards. Very useful indeed.
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