The acct URI scheme is a proposed

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, defined by . The purpose of the scheme is to identify, rather than interact, with user accounts hosted by a service provider. This scheme differs from the DNS name which specifies the service provider. The acct URI was intended to be the single URI scheme that would return information ''about'' a person (or possibly a thing) that holds an account at a given domain.

Example

The following is an example of an acct URI: acct:juliet%40capulet.example@shoppingsite.example

References

External links

List of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes
Application layer protocols Internet Standards Request for Comments URI schemes Semantic Web {{Internet-stub