diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 247c7353513e422c93a5bd7cd3e54e060bbe5134..9608a68b62c4c418508dd4865822c7ebf2df1358 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 * Extract StatusMessageService from StatusMessagesController [#6280](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6280)
 * Refactor HomeController#toggle\_mobile [#6260](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6260)
 * Extract CommentService from CommentsController [#6307](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6307)
+* Extract user/profile discovery into the diaspora\_federation-rails gem [#6310](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6310)
 
 ## Bug fixes
 * Fix indentation and a link title on the default home page [#6212](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/6212)
diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index e24b4af2157850266d7d14eaf5c7699636cdb7b6..a242af670e3b49941a897cc51792f449ff44b5fe 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -265,32 +265,6 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
     where(guid: guid, closed_account: false).where.not(owner: nil).take
   end
 
-  def self.create_from_webfinger(profile, hcard)
-    return nil if profile.nil? || !profile.valid_diaspora_profile?
-    new_person = Person.new
-    new_person.serialized_public_key = profile.public_key
-    new_person.guid = profile.guid
-    new_person.diaspora_handle = profile.account
-    new_person.url = profile.seed_location
-
-    #hcard_profile = HCard.find profile.hcard.first[:href]
-    ::Logging::Logger[self].info "event=webfinger_marshal valid=#{new_person.valid?} " \
-                                 "target=#{new_person.diaspora_handle}"
-    new_person.assign_new_profile_from_hcard(hcard)
-    new_person.save!
-    new_person.profile.save!
-    new_person
-  end
-
-  def assign_new_profile_from_hcard(hcard)
-    self.profile = Profile.new(:first_name => hcard[:given_name],
-                              :last_name  => hcard[:family_name],
-                              :image_url  => hcard[:photo],
-                              :image_url_medium  => hcard[:photo_medium],
-                              :image_url_small  => hcard[:photo_small],
-                              :searchable => hcard[:searchable])
-  end
-
   def remote?
     owner_id.nil?
   end
diff --git a/config/initializers/load_libraries.rb b/config/initializers/load_libraries.rb
index f0dfd8c0c8b54cf0c5d65cf996f1e7898cd3c8cd..86d701d33d8827b6be113648b6469a92548e0113 100644
--- a/config/initializers/load_libraries.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/load_libraries.rb
@@ -14,13 +14,10 @@ require 'diaspora'
 require 'direction_detector'
 require 'email_inviter'
 require 'evil_query'
-require 'h_card'
 require 'hydra_wrapper'
 require 'postzord'
 require 'publisher'
 require 'pubsubhubbub'
 require 'salmon'
 require 'stream'
-require 'webfinger'
-require 'webfinger_profile'
 require 'account_deleter'
diff --git a/lib/h_card.rb b/lib/h_card.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fda6aa2ed60da8ca4408dee0896abb1809bf0e6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/h_card.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-module HCard
-  def self.parse(doc)
-    {
-      given_name:   doc.css(".given_name").text,
-      family_name:  doc.css(".family_name").text,
-      url:          doc.css("#pod_location").text,
-      photo:        doc.css(".entity_photo .photo[src]").attribute("src").text,
-      photo_small:  doc.css(".entity_photo_small .photo[src]").attribute("src").text,
-      photo_medium: doc.css(".entity_photo_medium .photo[src]").attribute("src").text,
-      searchable:   doc.css(".searchable").text == "true"
-    }
-  end
-
-  def self.build(raw_hcard)
-    parse Nokogiri::HTML(raw_hcard)
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/webfinger.rb b/lib/webfinger.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c28a4e90d19ab0f248d094bfdd2426e6ae6d360..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/webfinger.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,123 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-class Webfinger
-  include Diaspora::Logging
-
-  attr_accessor :host_meta_xrd, :webfinger_profile_xrd,
-                :webfinger_profile, :hcard, :hcard_xrd, :person,
-                :account, :ssl
-
-  def initialize(account)
-    self.account = account
-    self.ssl = true
-  end
-
-
-  def fetch
-    return person if existing_person_with_profile?
-    create_or_update_person_from_webfinger_profile!
-  end
-
-  def self.in_background(account, opts={})
-    Workers::FetchWebfinger.perform_async(account)
-  end
-
-  #everything below should be private I guess
-  def account=(str)
-    @account = str.strip.gsub('acct:','').to_s.downcase
-  end
-
-  def get(url)
-    logger.info "Getting: #{url} for #{account}"
-    begin
-      res = Faraday.get(url)
-      unless res.success?
-        raise "Failed to fetch #{url}: #{res.status}"
-      end
-      res.body
-    rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError => e
-      logger.error "Failed to fetch #{url}: SSL setup invalid"
-      raise e
-    rescue => e
-      logger.error "Failed to fetch: #{url} for #{account}; #{e.message}"
-      raise e
-    end
-  end
-
-  def existing_person_with_profile?
-    cached_person.present? && cached_person.profile.present?
-  end
-
-  def cached_person
-    self.person ||= Person.by_account_identifier(account)
-  end
-
-  def create_or_update_person_from_webfinger_profile!
-    logger.info "webfingering #{account}, it is not known or needs updating"
-    if person #update my profile please
-      person.assign_new_profile_from_hcard(self.hcard)
-    else
-      person = make_person_from_webfinger
-    end
-    logger.info "successfully webfingered #{@account}" if person
-    person
-  end
-
-  #this tries the xrl url with https first, then falls back to http
-  def host_meta_xrd
-    begin
-      get(host_meta_url)
-    rescue => e
-      if self.ssl
-        self.ssl = false
-        retry
-      else
-        raise "there was an error getting the xrd from account #{@account}: #{e.message}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-
-  def hcard
-    @hcard ||= HCard.build(hcard_xrd)
-  end
-
-  def webfinger_profile
-    @webfinger_profile ||= WebfingerProfile.new(account, webfinger_profile_xrd)
-  end
-
-  def hcard_url
-    self.webfinger_profile.hcard
-  end
-
-  def webfinger_profile_url
-    doc = Nokogiri::XML(self.host_meta_xrd)
-    return nil if doc.namespaces["xmlns"] != "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0"
-    swizzle doc.search('Link').find{|x| x['rel']=='lrdd'}['template']
-  end
-
-  def webfinger_profile_xrd
-    @webfinger_profile_xrd ||= get(webfinger_profile_url)
-    logger.warn "#{@account} doesn't exists anymore" if @webfinger_profile_xrd == false
-    @webfinger_profile_xrd
-  end
-
-  def hcard_xrd
-    @hcard_xrd ||= get(hcard_url)
-  end
-
-  def make_person_from_webfinger
-    Person.create_from_webfinger(webfinger_profile, hcard) unless webfinger_profile_xrd == false
-  end
-
-  def host_meta_url
-    domain = account.split('@')[1]
-    "http#{'s' if self.ssl}://#{domain}/.well-known/host-meta"
-  end
-
-  def swizzle(template)
-    template.gsub('{uri}', account)
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/webfinger_profile.rb b/lib/webfinger_profile.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 44259e200196c3b3a72f24aac8817ecc2d4ceb97..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/webfinger_profile.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-class WebfingerProfile
-  include Diaspora::Logging
-
-  attr_accessor :webfinger_profile, :account, :links, :hcard, :guid, :public_key, :seed_location
-
-  def initialize(account, webfinger_profile)
-    @account = account
-    @webfinger_profile = webfinger_profile
-    @links = {}
-    set_fields
-  end
-
-  def valid_diaspora_profile?
-    !(@webfinger_profile.nil? || @account.nil? || @links.nil? || @hcard.nil? ||
-        @guid.nil? || @public_key.nil? || @seed_location.nil? )
-  end
-
-  private
-
-  def set_fields
-    doc = Nokogiri::XML.parse(webfinger_profile)
-    doc.remove_namespaces!
-
-    account_string = doc.css('Subject').text.gsub('acct:', '').strip
-
-    raise "account in profile(#{account_string}) and account requested (#{@account}) do not match" if account_string != @account
-
-    doc.css('Link').each do |l|
-      rel = text_of_attribute(l, 'rel')
-      href = text_of_attribute(l, 'href')
-      @links[rel] = href
-      case rel
-        when "http://microformats.org/profile/hcard"
-          @hcard = href
-        when "http://joindiaspora.com/guid"
-          @guid = href
-        when "http://joindiaspora.com/seed_location"
-          @seed_location = href
-      end
-    end
-
-    begin
-      pubkey = text_of_attribute( doc.at('Link[rel=diaspora-public-key]'), 'href')
-      @public_key = Base64.decode64 pubkey
-    rescue => e
-      logger.warn "event=invalid_profile identifier=#{@account}"
-    end
-  end
-
-  def text_of_attribute(doc, attr)
-    doc.attribute(attr) ? doc.attribute(attr).text : nil
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/controllers/diaspora_federation_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/diaspora_federation_controller_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8799220ee88660fe188f0c03bbe956382d3ea815..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/controllers/diaspora_federation_controller_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-require "spec_helper"
-
-# this is temporarily needed for fixture generation
-# TODO: remove this after the parsing is also in the diaspora_federation gem
-describe DiasporaFederation do
-  routes { DiasporaFederation::Engine.routes }
-
-  let(:fixture_path) { Rails.root.join("spec", "fixtures") }
-
-  describe DiasporaFederation::WebfingerController, type: :controller do
-    it "generates the host_meta fixture", fixture: true do
-      get :host_meta
-      expect(response).to be_success
-      expect(response.body).to match(/webfinger/)
-      save_fixture(response.body, "host-meta", fixture_path)
-    end
-
-    it "generates the webfinger fixture", fixture: true do
-      post :legacy_webfinger, "q" => alice.person.diaspora_handle
-      expect(response).to be_success
-      save_fixture(response.body, "webfinger", fixture_path)
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe DiasporaFederation::HCardController, type: :controller do
-    it "generates the hCard fixture", fixture: true do
-      post :hcard, "guid" => alice.person.guid.to_s
-      expect(response).to be_success
-      save_fixture(response.body, "hcard", fixture_path)
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/evan_hcard b/spec/fixtures/evan_hcard
deleted file mode 100644
index 8944ef1e3d114158d2a0bd319a11bda22672837b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/fixtures/evan_hcard
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-   <body id="hcard">
-
-  <div id="wrap">
-   <div id="core">
-    <dl id="site_nav_local_views">
-     <dt>Local views</dt>
-     <dd></dd>
-</dl>
-    <div id="content">
-     <h1>Evan Prodromou</h1>
-
-     <div id="content_inner">
-      <div id="i" class="entity_profile vcard author">
-       <h2>User profile</h2>
-       <dl class="entity_depiction">
-        <dt>Photo</dt>
-        <dd>
-         <img src="http://avatar.status.net/evan/1-96-20100726204409.jpeg" class="photo avatar" width="96" height="96" alt="evan"/>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-       <dl class="entity_nickname">
-        <dt>Nickname</dt>
-        <dd>
-         <a href="http://evan.status.net/" rel="me" class="nickname url uid">evan</a>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-       <dl class="entity_fn">
-        <dt>Full name</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-         <span class="fn">Evan Prodromou</span>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-       <dl class="entity_location">
-        <dt>Location</dt>
-        <dd class="label">Montreal, QC, Canada</dd>
-</dl>
-       <dl class="entity_url">
-
-        <dt>URL</dt>
-        <dd>
-         <a href="http://evan.prodromou.name/" rel="me" class="url">http://evan.prodromou.name/</a>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-       <dl class="entity_note">
-        <dt>Note</dt>
-        <dd class="note">Montreal hacker and entrepreneur. Founder of identi.ca, lead developer of StatusNet, CEO of StatusNet Inc.</dd>
-
-</dl>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-   <div id="footer">
-    <dl id="licenses">
-     <dt id="site_statusnet_license">StatusNet software license</dt>
-     <dd><p><strong>Evan Prodromou</strong> is a microblogging service brought to you by <a href="http://status.net/">Status.net</a>. It runs the <a href="http://status.net/">StatusNet</a> microblogging software, version 0.9.5, available under the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">GNU Affero General Public License</a>.</p>
-
-</dd>
-     <dt id="site_content_license">Site content license</dt>
-     <dd id="site_content_license_cc">
-      <p>
-       <img id="license_cc" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/80x15.png" alt="Creative Commons Attribution 3.0" width="80" height="15"/>:w
-
- All Evan Prodromou content and data are available under the <a class="license" rel="external license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0</a> license.</p>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-</div>
-</div>
-</body>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/finger_xrd b/spec/fixtures/finger_xrd
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ede32d744fdeceaa2e56468534e3c37710547f0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/fixtures/finger_xrd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0">
-  <Subject>acct:tom@tom.joindiaspora.com</Subject>
-  <Alias>"http://tom.joindiaspora.com/"</Alias>
-  <Link rel="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard" type="text/html" href="http://tom.joindiaspora.com/hcard/users/4c8eccce34b7da59ff000002"/>
-  <Link rel="http://joindiaspora.com/seed_location" type="text/html" href="http://tom.joindiaspora.com/"/>
-  <Link rel="http://joindiaspora.com/guid" type="text/html" href="4c8eccce34b7da59ff000002"/>
-  <Link rel='http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page' type='text/html' href="http://tom.joindiaspora.com/u/tom"/>
-  <Link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://tom.joindiaspora.com/u/tom.atom"/>
-  <Link rel="diaspora-public-key" type="RSA" href="LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBSU0EgUFVCTElDIEtFWS0tLS0tCk1JSUNDZ0tDQWdFQXlt dHpUdWQ3SytXQklPVVYwMmxZN2Z1NjdnNWQrbTBra1ZIQlgzTk1uYXB5bnZL a0VSemoKbkxma2JrTVpEVGdPNG1UaThmWFI3Q1ZSK3Q1SFN4b2Vub0JWazVX eUFabkEzWmpTRjBPcC9RakhlYzhvK0dVSApDOFluNFJ5N01hQ0R1cUNpNnJv c2RlbUlLTm1Fa2dsVVY1VzZ4WFd4Vmtrb21oL2VCQ2FmaVdMTXFRMG82NGox Ckw3aXNjQjVOM3ZkbnBrUmU3SkFxLzNDUTI3dWhDS0ZIWG1JYm1iVmhJQTNC R0J6YStPV3NjK1Z5cjV0Mm1wSlIKU1RXMk9UL20rS0NPK21kdnpmenQ0TzEr UHc1M1pJMjRpMlc2cW1XdThFZ1Z6QVcyMStuRGJManZiNHpzVHlrNQppN1JM cG8rUFl2VUJlLy8wM1lkQUJoRlJhVXpTL0RtcWRubEVvb0VvK0VmYzRkQ1NF bWVkMUgrek01c2xqQm1rCks5amsvOHNQZDB0SVZmMWZXdW9BcWZTSmErSXdr OHNybkdZbEVlaFV1dVhIY0x2b2JlUXJKYWdiRGc1Qll5TnIKeTAzcHpKTHlS ZU9UcC9RK1p0TXpMOFJMZWJsUzlWYXdNQzNDVzc5K0RGditTWGZ0eTl3NC8w d2NpUHpKejg2bgp2VzJ5K3crTThOWG52enBWNU81dGI4azZxZ2N0WjBmRzFu eXQ0RklsSHNVaUVoNnZLZmNLSmFPeWFRSGNGcWVxCjkwUkpoMm9TMDJBdFJx TFRSWDJJQjFnYXZnWEFXN1NYanJNbUNlVzlCdVBKYU5nZkp3WFFaelVoa0tC V1k0VnMKZTRFVWRob3R5RWkvUmE0RXVZU01ZcnZEeUFRUHJsY0wveDliaU1p bHVPcU9OMEpJZ1VodEZQRUNBd0VBQVE9PQotLS0tLUVORCBSU0EgUFVCTElD IEtFWS0tLS0tCg== "/>
-</XRD>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/hcard_response b/spec/fixtures/hcard_response
deleted file mode 100644
index 302c02430441d47e07fae1f8e1d373003c98bec2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/fixtures/hcard_response
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-
-<div id='content'> 
-  <h1>Alexander Hamiltom</h1> 
-  <div id='content_inner'> 
-    <div class='entity_profile vcard author' id='i'> 
-      <h2>User profile</h2> 
-      <dl class='entity_nickname'> 
-        <dt>Nickname</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <a class='nickname url uid' href='http://localhost:3000/' rel='me'>Alexander Hamiltom</a> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_given_name'> 
-        <dt>First name</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <span class='given_name'>Alexander</span> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_family_name'> 
-        <dt>Family name</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <span class='family_name'>Hamiltom</span> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_fn'> 
-        <dt>Full name</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <span class='fn'>Alexander Hamiltom</span> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_url'> 
-        <dt>URL</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <a class='url' href='http://localhost:3000/' id='pod_location' rel='me'>http://localhost:3000/</a> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_photo'> 
-        <dt>Photo</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <img class='photo avatar' height='300px' src='http://localhost:3000/uploads/images/thumb_large_8rxQAwC4Vx4cf5667d37db5b0fef000003.jpg' width='300px'> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_photo_medium'> 
-        <dt>Photo</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <img class='photo avatar' height='100px' src='http://localhost:3000/uploads/images/thumb_medium_8rxQAwC4Vx4cf5667d37db5b0fef000003.jpg' width='100px'> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_photo_small'> 
-        <dt>Photo</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <img class='photo avatar' height='50px' src='http://localhost:3000/uploads/images/thumb_small_8rxQAwC4Vx4cf5667d37db5b0fef000003.jpg' width='50px'> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-      <dl class='entity_searchable'> 
-        <dt>Searchable</dt> 
-        <dd> 
-          <span class='searchable'>false</span> 
-        </dd> 
-      </dl> 
-    </div> 
-  </div> 
-</div> 
-
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/host_xrd b/spec/fixtures/host_xrd
deleted file mode 100644
index ca2d3b5fcbe9c16a047255138fd7473d5465697e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/fixtures/host_xrd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
-  <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'>
-    <Link rel='lrdd'
-          template='http://tom.joindiaspora.com/webfinger/?q={uri}'>
-      <Title>Resource Descriptor</Title>
-    </Link>
-  </XRD>
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/nonseed_finger_xrd b/spec/fixtures/nonseed_finger_xrd
deleted file mode 100644
index b26e7d15d6449c3fa4e123ec82d7eca2921925de..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/fixtures/nonseed_finger_xrd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-      <XRD>
-      <Subject>acct:evan@status.net</Subject>
-      <Alias>acct:evan@evan.status.net</Alias>
-      <Alias>http://evan.status.net/user/1</Alias>
-      <Link rel="http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page" type="text/html" href="http://evan.status.net/user/1"/>
-      <Link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from" href="http://evan.status.net/api/statuses/user_timeline/1.atom" type="application/atom+xml"/>
-      <Link rel="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard" type="text/html" href="http://evan.status.net/hcard"/>
-      <Link rel="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" type="text/html" href="http://evan.status.net/user/1"/>
-      <Link rel="describedby" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://evan.status.net/foaf"/>
-      <Link rel="salmon" href="http://evan.status.net/main/salmon/user/1"/>
-      <Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-replies" href="http://evan.status.net/main/salmon/user/1"/>
-      <Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-mention" href="http://evan.status.net/main/salmon/user/1"/>
-      <Link rel="magic-public-key" href="data:application/magic-public-key,RSA.vyohOlwX03oJUg6R8BQP4V-6QQUfPg9gzOwk3ENQjqeGorHN8RNI4rhCQp7tACe9DEdEKtzZHbSvQC2zRICQ9JG_SIcpiU9jcT2imN5cPLZZQuPFZWwG4xPu_8LKRHuXeLGkzQMjvg6jFBl7qdo_iPnlbtIBb-mEuAnfRMcdUPE=.AQAB"/>
-      <Link rel="http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe" template="http://evan.status.net/main/ostatussub?profile={uri}"/>
-      </XRD>
diff --git a/spec/helper_methods.rb b/spec/helper_methods.rb
index e0df90faa383ff051a1e4ce1faa35c3a6ac14c04..ad4371a347a1de12a7211364d0807c8f05a7a30b 100644
--- a/spec/helper_methods.rb
+++ b/spec/helper_methods.rb
@@ -19,46 +19,6 @@ module HelperMethods
                            :receiving => true)
   end
 
-  def stub_success(address = 'abc@example.com', opts = {})
-    host = address.split('@')[1]
-    stub_request(:get, "https://#{host}/.well-known/host-meta").to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_xrd)
-    stub_request(:get, "http://#{host}/.well-known/host-meta").to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_xrd)
-    if opts[:diaspora] || host.include?("diaspora")
-      stub_request(:get, /webfinger\/\?q=#{address}/).to_return(:status => 200, :body => finger_xrd)
-      stub_request(:get, "http://#{host}/hcard/users/4c8eccce34b7da59ff000002").to_return(:status => 200, :body => hcard_response)
-    else
-      stub_request(:get, /webfinger\/\?q=#{address}/).to_return(:status => 200, :body => nonseed_finger_xrd)
-      stub_request(:get, 'http://evan.status.net/hcard').to_return(:status => 200, :body => evan_hcard)
-    end
-  end
-
-  def stub_failure(address = 'abc@example.com')
-    host = address.split('@')[1]
-    stub_request(:get, "https://#{host}/.well-known/host-meta").to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_xrd)
-    stub_request(:get, "http://#{host}/.well-known/host-meta").to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_xrd)
-    stub_request(:get, /webfinger\/\?q=#{address}/).to_return(:status => 500)
-  end
-
-  def host_xrd
-    File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/host_xrd').read
-  end
-
-  def finger_xrd
-    File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/finger_xrd').read
-  end
-
-  def hcard_response
-    File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/hcard_response').read
-  end
-
-  def nonseed_finger_xrd
-    File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/nonseed_finger_xrd').read
-  end
-
-  def evan_hcard
-    File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/evan_hcard').read
-  end
-
   def uploaded_photo
     fixture_filename = 'button.png'
     fixture_name = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'fixtures', fixture_filename)
diff --git a/spec/lib/h_card_spec.rb b/spec/lib/h_card_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index d4197c0b44699a1b81c3b8641a95765d1e3c6814..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/lib/h_card_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-require "spec_helper"
-
-describe HCard do
-  it "should parse an hcard" do
-    raw_hcard = hcard_response
-    hcard = HCard.build raw_hcard
-    expect(hcard[:family_name].include?("Hamiltom")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:given_name].include?("Alex")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo].include?("thumb_large")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_medium].include?("thumb_medium")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_small].include?("thumb_small")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:url]).to eq("http://localhost:3000/")
-    expect(hcard[:searchable]).to eq(false)
-  end
-
-  it "should parse an hcard with searchable true" do
-    raw_hcard = hcard_response.sub("<span class='searchable'>false</span>", "<span class='searchable'>true</span>")
-    hcard = HCard.build raw_hcard
-    expect(hcard[:family_name].include?("Hamiltom")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:given_name].include?("Alex")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo].include?("thumb_large")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_medium].include?("thumb_medium")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_small].include?("thumb_small")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:url]).to eq("http://localhost:3000/")
-    expect(hcard[:searchable]).to eq(true)
-  end
-
-  it "should parse an hcard with empty searchable" do
-    raw_hcard = hcard_response.sub("<span class='searchable'>false</span>", "<span class='searchable'></span>")
-    hcard = HCard.build raw_hcard
-    expect(hcard[:family_name].include?("Hamiltom")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:given_name].include?("Alex")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo].include?("thumb_large")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_medium].include?("thumb_medium")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:photo_small].include?("thumb_small")).to be true
-    expect(hcard[:url]).to eq("http://localhost:3000/")
-    expect(hcard[:searchable]).to eq(false)
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/lib/webfinger_profile_spec.rb b/spec/lib/webfinger_profile_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 51991f084589802449ab3b17961a67455bba33fb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/lib/webfinger_profile_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-require 'spec_helper'
-
-describe WebfingerProfile do
-  let(:webfinger_profile){File.open(Rails.root.join("spec", "fixtures", "finger_xrd")).read.strip}
-  let(:not_diaspora_webfinger){File.open(Rails.root.join("spec", "fixtures", "nonseed_finger_xrd")).read.strip}
-
-  let(:account){"tom@tom.joindiaspora.com"}
-  let(:profile){ WebfingerProfile.new(account, webfinger_profile) }
-  
-  context "parsing a diaspora profile" do
-    
-    describe '#valid_diaspora_profile?' do
-      it 'should check all of the required fields' do
-        expect(manual_nil_check(profile)).to eq(profile.valid_diaspora_profile?)
-      end
-    end
-
-    describe '#set_fields' do
-      it 'should check to make sure it has a the right webfinger profile' do
-        expect{ WebfingerProfile.new("nottom@tom.joindiaspora.com", webfinger_profile)}.to raise_error 
-      end
-
-      it 'should handle a non-diaspora profile without blowing up' do
-        expect{ WebfingerProfile.new("evan@status.net", not_diaspora_webfinger)}.not_to raise_error 
-      end
-      
-      [:links, :hcard, :guid, :seed_location, :public_key].each do |field|
-        it 'should sets the #{field} field' do
-          expect(profile.send(field)).to be_present
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-    def manual_nil_check(profile)
-      profile.instance_variables.each do |var|
-        var = var.to_s.gsub('@', '')
-        return false if profile.send(var).nil? == true
-      end
-      true
-    end
-end
diff --git a/spec/lib/webfinger_spec.rb b/spec/lib/webfinger_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index c3515bebe26ee3c294f0e8c3ad9cab3e3d8e6b93..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/lib/webfinger_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,221 +0,0 @@
-#   Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-require 'spec_helper'
-
-describe Webfinger do
-  let(:host_meta_xrd) { File.open(Rails.root.join('spec', 'fixtures', 'host-meta.fixture.html')).read }
-  let(:webfinger_xrd) { File.open(Rails.root.join('spec', 'fixtures', 'webfinger.fixture.html')).read }
-  let(:hcard_xml) { File.open(Rails.root.join('spec', 'fixtures', 'hcard.fixture.html')).read }
-  let(:account){'foo@bar.com'}
-  let(:account_in_fixtures){"alice@localhost:9887"}
-  let(:finger){Webfinger.new(account)}
-  let(:host_meta_url){"http://#{AppConfig.pod_uri.authority}/webfinger?q="}
-
-  describe '#intialize' do
-    it 'sets account ' do
-      n = Webfinger.new("mbs348@gmail.com")
-      expect(n.account).not_to be nil
-    end
-
-    it "downcases account and strips whitespace, and gsub 'acct:'" do
-      n = Webfinger.new("acct:BIGBOY@Example.Org ")
-      expect(n.account).to eq('bigboy@example.org')
-    end
-
-    it 'should set ssl as the default' do
-      foo = Webfinger.new(account)
-      expect(foo.ssl).to be true
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '.in_background' do
-    it 'enqueues a Workers::FetchWebfinger job' do
-      expect(Workers::FetchWebfinger).to receive(:perform_async).with(account)
-      Webfinger.in_background(account)
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#fetch' do
-    it 'works' do
-      finger = Webfinger.new(account_in_fixtures)
-      allow(finger).to receive(:host_meta_xrd).and_return(host_meta_xrd)
-      allow(finger).to receive(:hcard_xrd).and_return(hcard_xml)
-      allow(finger).to receive(:webfinger_profile_xrd).and_return(webfinger_xrd)
-      person = finger.fetch
-      expect(person).to be_valid
-      expect(person).to be_a Person
-    end
-
-  end
-
-  describe '#get' do
-    it 'makes a request and grabs the body' do
-      url ="https://bar.com/.well-known/host-meta"
-      stub_request(:get, url).
-        to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_meta_xrd)
-
-      expect(finger.get(url)).to eq(host_meta_xrd)
-    end
-
-    it 'follows redirects' do
-      redirect_url = "http://whereami.whatisthis/host-meta"
-
-      stub_request(:get, "https://bar.com/.well-known/host-meta").
-        to_return(:status => 302, :headers => { 'Location' => redirect_url })
-
-      stub_request(:get, redirect_url).
-        to_return(:status => 200, :body => host_meta_xrd)
-
-      finger.host_meta_xrd
-
-      expect(a_request(:get, redirect_url)).to have_been_made
-    end
-
-    it 'raises on 404' do
-      url ="https://bar.com/.well-known/host-meta"
-      stub_request(:get, url).
-        to_return(:status => 404, :body => nil)
-
-      expect {
-        expect(finger.get(url)).to eq(false)
-      }.to raise_error
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe 'existing_person_with_profile?' do
-    it 'returns true if cached_person is present and has a profile' do
-      expect(finger).to receive(:cached_person).twice.and_return(FactoryGirl.create(:person))
-      expect(finger.existing_person_with_profile?).to be true
-    end
-
-    it 'returns false if it has no person' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:cached_person).and_return false
-      expect(finger.existing_person_with_profile?).to be false
-    end
-
-    it 'returns false if the person has no profile' do
-      p = FactoryGirl.create(:person)
-      p.profile = nil
-      allow(finger).to receive(:cached_person).and_return(p)
-      expect(finger.existing_person_with_profile?).to be false
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe 'cached_person' do
-    it 'sets the person by looking up the account from Person.by_account_identifier' do
-      person = double
-      expect(Person).to receive(:by_account_identifier).with(account).and_return(person)
-      expect(finger.cached_person).to eq(person)
-      expect(finger.person).to eq(person)
-    end
-  end
-
-
-  describe 'create_or_update_person_from_webfinger_profile!' do
-    context 'with a cached_person' do
-      it 'calls Person#assign_new_profile_from_hcard with the fetched hcard' do
-        finger.hcard_xrd = hcard_xml
-        allow(finger).to receive(:person).and_return(bob.person)
-        expect(bob.person).to receive(:assign_new_profile_from_hcard).with(finger.hcard)
-        finger.create_or_update_person_from_webfinger_profile!
-      end
-    end
-
-    context 'with no cached person' do
-      it 'sets person based on make_person_from_webfinger' do
-        allow(finger).to receive(:person).and_return(nil)
-        expect(finger).to receive(:make_person_from_webfinger)
-        finger.create_or_update_person_from_webfinger_profile!
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#host_meta_xrd' do
-    it 'calls #get with host_meta_url' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:host_meta_url).and_return('meta')
-      expect(finger).to receive(:get).with('meta')
-      finger.host_meta_xrd
-    end
-
-    it 'should retry with ssl off a second time' do
-      expect(finger).to receive(:get).and_raise(StandardError)
-      expect(finger).to receive(:get)
-      finger.host_meta_xrd
-      expect(finger.ssl).to be false
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#hcard' do
-    it 'calls HCard.build' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:hcard_xrd).and_return(hcard_xml)
-      expect(HCard).to receive(:build).with(hcard_xml).and_return true
-      expect(finger.hcard).not_to be_nil
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#webfinger_profile' do
-    it 'constructs a new WebfingerProfile object' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:webfinger_profile_xrd).and_return(webfinger_xrd)
-      expect(WebfingerProfile).to receive(:new).with(account, webfinger_xrd)
-      finger.webfinger_profile
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#webfinger_profile_url' do
-    it 'returns the llrd link for a valid host meta' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:host_meta_xrd).and_return(host_meta_xrd)
-      expect(finger.webfinger_profile_url).not_to be_nil
-    end
-
-    it 'returns nil if no link is found' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:host_meta_xrd).and_return(nil)
-      expect(finger.webfinger_profile_url).to be_nil
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#webfinger_profile_xrd' do
-    it 'calls #get with the hcard_url' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:hcard_url).and_return("url")
-      expect(finger).to receive(:get).with("url")
-      finger.hcard_xrd
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe '#make_person_from_webfinger' do
-    it 'with an hcard and a webfinger_profile, it calls Person.create_from_webfinger' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:hcard).and_return("hcard")
-      allow(finger).to receive(:webfinger_profile_xrd).and_return("webfinger_profile_xrd")
-      allow(finger).to receive(:webfinger_profile).and_return("webfinger_profile")
-      expect(Person).to receive(:create_from_webfinger).with("webfinger_profile", "hcard")
-      finger.make_person_from_webfinger
-    end
-
-    it 'with an false xrd it does not call Person.create_from_webfinger' do
-      allow(finger).to receive(:webfinger_profile_xrd).and_return(false)
-      expect(Person).not_to receive(:create_from_webfinger)
-      finger.make_person_from_webfinger
-    end
-  end
-
-
-
-  describe '#host_meta_url' do
-    it 'should return canonical host-meta url for http' do
-      finger.ssl = false
-      expect(finger.host_meta_url).to eq("http://bar.com/.well-known/host-meta")
-    end
-
-    it 'can return the https version' do
-      expect(finger.host_meta_url).to eq("https://bar.com/.well-known/host-meta")
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe 'swizzle' do
-    it 'gsubs out {uri} for the account' do
-      string = "{uri} is the coolest"
-      expect(finger.swizzle(string)).to eq("#{finger.account} is the coolest")
-    end
-  end
-end