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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+The changes are recorded by the version control system, Darcs. To see a log
+quickly from the terminal, run:
+
+  $ darcs changes --repo http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client
+
+There is also a web interface at <http://hub.darcs.net> which, among other
+things, can display the history log.
+
+To see the log in a local clone, first get a copy of the repository if you
+haven't yet:
+
+  $ darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client
+
+Then move into the newly created directory and run darcs:
+
+  $ cd webfinger-client
+  $ darcs changes
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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+Install from Hackage:
+
+    $ cabal install webfinger-client
+
+Install from unpacked release tarball or source repo:
+
+    $ cd webfinger-client
+    $ cabal install
+
+Just play with it without installing:
+
+    $ cabal build
+    $ cabal repl
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+This file lists the user-visible interesting changes between releases. For a
+full list of changes to the source, see the ChangeLog.
+
+
+
+webfinger-client 0.1.0.0 -- 2015-12-12
+======================================
+
+General, build and documentation changes:
+
+* (This is the first release, so everything is new)
+
+New APIs, features and enhancements:
+
+* (This is the first release, so everything is a new feature)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* (This is just the first release, many bugs haven't been discovered yet)
+
+Dependency changes:
+
+* (This is the first release)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+See the .cabal file for more info and link to project website the version
+control.
+
+The official download location is Hackage:
+
+<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/webfinger-client>
+
+This library is free software, and is committed to software freedom. It is
+released to the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. For the
+boring "legal" details see the file 'COPYING'.
+
+See the file 'INSTALL' for hints on installation. The file 'ChangeLog' explains
+how to see the history log of the changes done in the code. 'NEWS' provides a
+friendly overview of the changes for each release.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/src/Web/Finger/Client.hs b/src/Web/Finger/Client.hs
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+{- This file is part of webfinger-client.
+ -
+ - Written in 2015 by fr33domlover <fr33domlover@riseup.net>.
+ -
+ - ♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy, reuse and share.
+ -
+ - The author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring
+ - rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is
+ - distributed without any warranty.
+ -
+ - You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along
+ - with this software. If not, see
+ - <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
+ -}
+
+-- For Text and ByteString literals
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
+-- For generating Hashable instance
+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
+
+-- To allow Language-hashed maps be FromJSON
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+
+module Web.Finger.Client
+    ( Account (..)
+    , Resource (..)
+    , Auth (..)
+    , Query (..)
+    , Link (..)
+    , Description (..)
+    , Result (..)
+    , newManager
+    , webfinger
+    )
+where
+
+import Control.Applicative
+import Control.Exception
+import Data.Aeson hiding (Result, Success)
+import Data.Aeson.Types (typeMismatch)
+import Data.Default.Class
+import Data.Hashable
+import Data.Monoid ((<>))
+import GHC.Generics (Generic)
+
+import qualified Data.ByteString as B
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BC
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Lazy as M
+import qualified Data.Text as T
+import qualified Network.HTTP.Client as H
+import qualified Network.HTTP.Client.TLS as H
+import qualified Network.HTTP.Types as HT
+import qualified URI.ByteString as U
+
+{- URI ideas
+
+* [/] allow to pass a URI string or a URI as per Network.URI, does http-client not depend on it anyway?
+* [x]                  - // -                    URI.ByteString
+* [x] allow to pass user and host and treat as an acct URI
+* [/] if URI has no scheme and a single @, assume it is user@host and treat as acct
+* [x] if URI has no ':' but does have '@', treat as an acct URI
+* [x] in Go it takes absolute URL or email - should I require that a URI passed be
+  absolute? what does it mean not to be absolute? DONE assume it's absolute
+* [x] make acct URIs get parsed, i.e. hostname extracted correctly
+
+ - Other Nodes
+
+* [ ] Add a list of properties and link relations, the Python module has one...
+* [x] Add an HTTP Accept header containing the JRD MIME type, the python module
+  does it. But first read in the RFC to make sure it's ok
+-}
+
+-- | A given user at a given host. For example, /john@example.org/ means the
+-- user is /john/ and the host is /example.org/.
+data Account = Account
+    { acctUser :: B.ByteString
+    , acctHost :: B.ByteString
+    }
+
+-- | A web resource about which you'd like to make a query.
+data Resource
+    = ResAccount Account
+    | ResUri U.URI
+    | ResUriStr B.ByteString
+
+-- | HTTP user authentication details.
+data Auth = Auth
+    { authUser     :: B.ByteString
+    , authPassword :: B.ByteString
+    }
+
+-- | A WebFinger query, for which the client can get a response.
+--
+-- In the 'Default' instance, all fields are empty/null and there are no
+-- auth details. Therefore you must at least (but it is also enough to) specify
+-- the 'qryTarget' URI.
+data Query = Query
+    { -- | A URI representing an entity about which you would like to get
+      -- information.
+      qryTarget   :: Resource
+      -- | A list of link relations by which to filter the link list in the
+      -- returned description. If you'd like to receive /all/ the links, leave
+      -- this list empty.
+    , qryLinkRels :: [B.ByteString]
+      -- | You can explicitly specify a host (e.g. @www.example.org@) here, to
+      -- which the WebFinger query will be sent. If you don't specify a host
+      -- here, it will be extracted from the 'qryTarget' field (if it has a
+      -- host part). Therefore this field is useful in special cases where the
+      -- WebFinger server isn't the one referred by the target URI, or the URI
+      -- doesn't have a host.
+    , qryHost     :: Maybe B.ByteString
+      -- | HTTP authentication details. If the WebFinger server requires a
+      -- username and password to access it, specify them here. For publicly
+      -- available WebFinger servers, pass 'Nothing'.
+    , qryAuth     :: Maybe Auth
+    }
+
+instance Default Query where
+    def = Query
+        { qryTarget   = ResUriStr B.empty
+        , qryLinkRels = []
+        , qryHost     = Nothing
+        , qryAuth     = Nothing
+        }
+
+-- | Natural Language code. Used to express in which language a text string is
+-- written.
+data Language
+    -- | A specific language specified using a code, e.g. @en-us@.
+    = LanguageCode T.Text
+    -- | No specific language. However it doesn't mean that nothing is
+    -- specified. It means that "language undefined" is explicity specified.
+    | LanguageUndefined
+    deriving (Eq, Generic, Show)
+
+instance Hashable Language
+
+toLang :: T.Text -> Language
+toLang t =
+    if t == "und"
+        then LanguageUndefined
+        else LanguageCode t
+
+instance FromJSON (M.HashMap Language T.Text) where
+    parseJSON v = M.fromList . map f . M.toList <$> parseJSON v
+        where
+        f (l, t) = (toLang l, t)
+
+-- | Represents a link from the target resource to some other web resource.
+-- This is more than a simple webpage link: It also has a relation type (i.e.
+-- what is the relation between the target resource and the referred resource)
+-- and additional properties.
+data Link = Link
+    { -- | The link relation type. Determines the relation between the target
+      -- resource (about which the query was made) and the resource referred by
+      -- the link. For example, if the target resource is a user and the linked
+      -- resource is the user's avatar image, the link relation may be
+      -- /avatar/.
+      --
+      -- A link relation may be a URI or one of the registered relation type
+      -- names.
+      lnkRelation   :: T.Text --TODO: URI or registered relation type. Maybe parse it and give more typed info?
+      -- | The MIME type to be expected of the content behind the link URI. For
+      -- example, if the link refers to a user's avatar image, the MIME type
+      -- may be @image/png@ (i.e. an image file in PNG format).
+    , lnkMediaType  :: Maybe T.Text
+      -- | The link address itself. It is optional, because there may be cases
+      -- in which all the information about the link is provided by the
+      -- properties (the 'lnkProperties' field). For example, if the link is a
+      -- user's avatar image, the address may be
+      -- @https://example.org/users/john/avatar.png@.
+    , lnkAddress    :: Maybe T.Text
+      -- | Optional title(s) for the link, possibly in various languages.
+    , lnkTitles     :: M.HashMap Language T.Text
+      -- | Additional properties the link may have. Maps property names, which
+      -- are URIs, to string values.
+    , lnkProperties :: M.HashMap T.Text (Maybe T.Text) --TODO use IANA database to parse known values?
+    }
+    deriving (Show)
+
+instance FromJSON Link where
+    parseJSON (Object o) =
+        Link <$>
+        o .:  "rel"                    <*>
+        o .:? "type"                   <*>
+        o .:? "href"                   <*>
+        o .:? "titles"     .!= M.empty <*>
+        o .:? "properties" .!= M.empty
+    parseJSON v          = typeMismatch "Link" v
+
+-- | Information about the target resource, returned when a query succeeds.
+data Description = Description
+    { -- | A URI representing the resource being described. This is the same
+      -- resource specified in the query, but the URI may slightly differ (e.g.
+      -- appear in canonical form).
+      desSubject    :: Maybe T.Text
+      -- | List of URIs which identify the same resource as the 'desSubject'
+      -- URI.
+    , desAliases    :: [T.Text]
+      -- | Additional information about the subject. Maps property names, which
+      -- are URIs, to string values.
+    , desProperties :: M.HashMap T.Text (Maybe T.Text) --TODO use IANA database to parse known values?
+      -- | Links of various relation types from the subject resource to other
+      -- resources represented by URIs.
+    , desLinks      :: [Link]
+    }
+    deriving (Show)
+
+instance FromJSON Description where
+    parseJSON (Object o) =
+        Description <$>
+        o .:? "subject"                <*>
+        o .:? "aliases"    .!= []      <*>
+        o .:? "properties" .!= M.empty <*>
+        o .:? "links"      .!= []
+    parseJSON v          = typeMismatch "Description" v
+
+-- | Response to the query.
+data Result
+    -- | The WebFinger server returned a valid resource description.
+    = Success Description
+    -- | The server returned a description but we failed to parse it.
+    | InvalidDesc String
+    -- | The server doesn't have information about the query target.
+    | NoInfoFound
+    -- | The server says the target URI is either absent from the HTTP request,
+    -- or is malformed.
+    | TargetMalformed
+    -- | We (client side) couldn't determine the host to which to send the
+    -- query. This usually means no host was explicitly specified, and the
+    -- attempt to extract the host from the query target resource failed.
+    | HostNotDetected String
+    deriving (Show)
+
+-- | A connection manager, see "Network.HTTP.Client" for details. This function
+-- creates a manager which can handle HTTPS, which is /required/ for WebFinger
+-- and regular HTTP /isn't allowed/. If you'd like to make queries in other
+-- ways which require more support (e.g. perhaps Tor), create your own manager
+-- instead using one of the @http-client-*@ packages.
+newManager :: IO H.Manager
+newManager = H.newManager H.tlsManagerSettings
+
+-- | Try to get the host from a resource URI.
+getHost :: U.URI -> Either String B.ByteString
+getHost uri =
+    case U.uriAuthority uri of
+        Nothing -> Left "Resource URI has no authority part"
+        Just au -> Right $ U.hostBS $ U.authorityHost au
+
+-- | Determine URI and host from resource. If no host is found, return a
+-- message instead which explains why.
+parseResource :: Resource -> (B.ByteString, Either String B.ByteString)
+parseResource (ResAccount a) =
+    ( "acct:" <> acctUser a <> "@" <> acctHost a -- escape user! do i need to espcape host?
+    , Right $ acctHost a                         -- do i need to escape host? does http-client do it anyway?
+    )
+parseResource (ResUri u) =
+    ( U.serializeURI' u
+    , getHost u
+    )
+parseResource (ResUriStr s) =
+    let prefix = "acct:"
+        s' = if ':' `BC.notElem` s && '@' `BC.elem` s
+                then prefix <> s
+                else s
+        rest = B.drop (B.length prefix) s'
+        needSlash = not (B.null rest) && BC.head rest /= '/'
+        s'' = if prefix `B.isPrefixOf` s' && needSlash
+                then prefix <> "//" <> rest
+                else s'
+    in  ( s'
+        , case U.parseURI U.laxURIParserOptions s'' of
+            Left e    -> Left $ show e
+            Right uri -> getHost uri
+        )
+
+-- | Send a WebFinger query over HTTPS to a WebFinger server, and get a
+-- response.
+--
+-- Some HTTP exceptions which represent common query results are caught and
+-- used to determine the return value, i.e. the 'Result'. All other HTTP
+-- exceptions aren't handled.
+webfinger :: H.Manager
+          -- ^ Connection manager. See 'newManager'.
+          -> Query
+          -- ^ A query expressing what you'd like to know, and whom to ask.
+          -> IO Result
+webfinger manager q =
+    let (uri, eith) = parseResource $ qryTarget q
+        eith' = maybe eith Right $ qryHost q
+    in  case eith' of
+            Left err -> return $ HostNotDetected err
+            Right host -> do
+                let req = def
+                        { H.method         = HT.methodGet
+                        , H.secure         = True
+                        , H.host           = host
+                        , H.port           = 443
+                        , H.path           = "/.well-known/webfinger" --TODO maybe make a Haskell package for well-known URIs?
+                        , H.requestHeaders =
+                            [(HT.hAccept, "application/jrd+json")]
+                        }
+                    req' = case qryAuth q of
+                            Nothing               -> req
+                            Just (Auth user pass) -> H.applyBasicAuth user pass req
+                    res = ("resource", Just uri)
+                    rels = map ((,) "rel" . Just) $ qryLinkRels q
+                    params = res : rels
+                    req'' = H.setQueryString params req'
+                eresp <- try (H.httpLbs req'' manager)
+                case eresp of
+                    Left e ->
+                        case e :: H.HttpException of
+                            H.StatusCodeException s _ _
+                                | s == HT.badRequest400 ->
+                                    return TargetMalformed
+                                | s == HT.notFound404   -> return NoInfoFound
+                                | otherwise             -> throwIO e
+                            _ -> throwIO e
+                    Right resp ->
+                        return $ case eitherDecode $ H.responseBody resp of
+                            Left err   -> InvalidDesc err
+                            Right desc -> Success desc
diff --git a/webfinger-client.cabal b/webfinger-client.cabal
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+name:                webfinger-client
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            WebFinger client library
+description:
+  This is a client library for querying a
+  <https://webfinger.net WebFinger>
+  resource and parsing the response.
+homepage:            http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client
+bug-reports:         http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client/issues
+license:             PublicDomain
+license-file:        COPYING
+author:              fr33domlover
+maintainer:          fr33domlover@riseup.net
+copyright:           ♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy, reuse and share.
+category:            Network, Web
+build-type:          Simple
+extra-source-files:  AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL NEWS.md README.md
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+source-repository head
+  type:                darcs
+  location:            http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client
+
+library
+  exposed-modules:     Web.Finger.Client
+  -- other-modules:       
+  -- other-extensions:    
+  build-depends:       aeson                >=0.7
+                     , base                 >=4.7 && <5
+                     , bytestring
+                     , data-default-class
+                     , hashable
+                     , http-client          >=0.3.6
+                     , http-client-tls      >=0.2.2
+                     , http-types
+                     , text
+                     , unordered-containers >=0.2.5
+                     , uri-bytestring       >=0.1.7
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+  ghc-options:         -Wall
