Discodactyl

• github.com/josephholsten/discodactyl
• josephholsten.lighthouseapp.com/projects/36040-discodactyl
• joseph@josephholsten.com

DESCRIPTION:

Discodactyl is an experimental toolkit for XRD service discovery documents and related protocols. It includes implementations of XRD URITemplate Link-Patterns, basic site-meta support, HTTP Link header parsing, acct: URIs and a webfinger poking stick.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• XRD parsing and link finding.
• LRDD discovery.
• acct: URI parsing.
• Probably filled with bugs. Don’t forget your bug powder.

SYNOPSIS:

  # All of WebFinger! In very few, if long and pointy, lines!
  require 'discodactyl'

  acct = URI.parse 'acct:bradfitz@gmail.com'

  webfinger_uris = XRD::ResourceDiscovery.get_uris_by_rel(acct, 'http://webfinger.info/rel/service', 'id' => acct.id)
  disco_doc = XRD::Document.parse(open(webfinger_uris.first))

REQUIREMENTS:

• nokogiri
• hoe

INSTALL:

• sudo gem install discodactyl

LICENSE:

This software is also available in a permissive license. Please contact Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com> for more information.

(The GNU Affero General Public License)

Copyright © 2009 Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.