NAME¶

WWW::Finger::BitworkingFingerProtocol - WWW::Finger module for Joe Gregorio's finger protocol

SYNOPSIS¶

  use WWW::Finger;
  my $finger = WWW::Finger->new("joe@example.com");
  if (defined $finger)
  {
    print $finger->openid . "\n";
  }

DESCRIPTION¶

This module implements an alternative finger proposal by Joe Gregorio.

Additional methods (other than standard WWW::Finger):

• "openid" - returns the person's OpenID.
• "dictionary" - returns a hashref of key-value pairs from their profile

SEE ALSO¶

WWW::Finger.

<http://bitworking.org/news/2010/01/webfinger>.

AUTHOR¶

Toby Inkster, <tobyink@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE¶

Copyright (C) 2010-2012 by Toby Inkster

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES¶

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.