WebFinger Link Relations
This page enumerates commonly used link relation values used with the WebFinger protocol. There is also a companion page that enumerates popular WebFinger Properties.
| Link Reation | Description |
|---|---|
| acct | This link relation allows one WebFinger account to point to another, thus allowing incorporation of additional link relations by reference |
| http://microformats.org/profile/hcard | Refers to the person's hCard |
| http://openid.net/specs/connect/1.0/issuer | OpenID Connect Issuer (see: http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html#ProviderDisc) |
| http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe | Defined in http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-2-specification.html and used by ostatus SN federation protocol to indicate the endpoint to use for initiating a subscription on the user's subscription server |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/blog | Refers to a person's blog |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/businesscard | This refers to a person's business card, such as a vCard as documented in RFC 6350 or xCard as documented in RFC 6351 |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/imap-server | Refers to an IMAP server (for mail configuration) |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/pop-server | Refers to a POP server (for mail configuration) |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/share | Refers to a web site that contains a list of files shared by the user |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/smtp-server | Refers to an SMTP server (for mail configuration) |
| http://packetizer.com/rel/xmpp-server | Refers to an XMPP server (for XMPP client configuration) |
| http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0 | This refers to a person's contact list (portable contacts) |
| http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0#me | This refers to a the specific person in the person's contact list (portable contacts) |
| http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/magic-key | Defined in http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig-01.html and used by Salmon protocol in XRD documents to provide the user's public key for sending messages targeting that user |
| http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from | Refers to a URL where one can get "updates" related to a user, usually in the form of a ATOM or RSS feed that might be populated using a microblog or blogging service |
| http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/provider | This refers to a person's OpenID identity URI, not the OpenID provider as the name suggessts. Web sites that support OpenID could accept names like bob@example.com, perform a query for acct:bob@example.com, then use the href associated with this link relation as the OpenID identifier the user would normally enter. |
| http://webfinger.net/rel/avatar | This refers to a person's avatar and may be in any standard image format (e.g., PNG, JPEG, GIF) |
| http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page | Provides a pointer to the user's profile page |
| hub | Defined in http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pubsubhubbub-core-0.3.html and used to indicate the hub where to subscribe to for user feeds |
| lrdd | Link-based Resource Descriptor Documents (LRDD, pronounced 'lard') is a resource template defined in RFC 6415 that contains link relations specific to a user (i.e., usually where all of the link relations described on this page are found) |
| salmon | Defined in http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-salmon-00.html and used by Salmon protocol in XRD documents to provide the user's Salmon endpoint where to send messages targeting that user |
This page is maintained by Paul E. Jones. Please feel free to report an errors directly to me.