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.