WebFinger is a protocol specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF in RFC 7033 that allows for discovery of information about people and things identified by a URI.[1] Information about a person might be discovered via an acct: URI, for example, which is a URI that looks like an email address.
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WebFinger is specified as the discovery protocol for OpenID Connect,[2] which is a protocol that allows one to more easily log in to various sites on the Internet.[3]
On Mastodon, any federated servers can look up users by sending a request to the WebFinger endpoint on other servers.[5] Here is an example for the user@Mastodon@mastodon.social:
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