XRD Subject: Protocol missing?

[Christian Weiske]

Hello,

The XRD 1.0 spec[1] say
> The <Subject> element contains a URI value which identifies the
> resource described by this XRD. This value MUST be an absolute URI.

Yahoo seems to think different:
$ curl -sLi https://yahoo.com/.well-known/host-meta|grep Subject
$ <Subject>yahoo.com</Subject>

Shouldn't that be https://yahoo.com ? Or am I misunderstanding the
specs?

[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/v1.0/xrd-1.0.html#element.subject

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[Pelle Wessman]

Just a note on this - the host-meta file should according to the specification not include any subject at all: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415
The specification says that it's due to that "at this time no URI is available to identify hosts.".

/ pelle

[Christian Weiske]

Hello Pelle,

> > The XRD 1.0 spec[1] say
> > > The <Subject> element contains a URI value which identifies the
> > > resource described by this XRD. This value MUST be an absolute
> > > URI.
> >
> > Yahoo seems to think different:
> > $ curl -sLi https://yahoo.com/.well-known/host-meta|grep Subject
> > $ <Subject>yahoo.com</Subject>
> >
> > Shouldn't that be https://yahoo.com ? Or am I misunderstanding the
> > specs?

> Just a note on this - the host-meta file should according to the

> specification not include any subject at all:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415
> The specification says that it's due to that "at this time no URI is
> available to identify hosts.".

Thanks for the pointer - that makes sense.