Redirect Service

The Universal Resolver supports a DID-based redirect service when the service and optionally relativeRef DID parameter(s) are present, and if an Accept header with value text/html is sent.

This feature can be useful for resolving DIDs directly in the browser, since the browser gets redirected to the DID's service endpoint URL via a 303 HTTP status code.

In order to support short URLs, the URL https://did.re/ can optionally be used in place of https://api.godiddy.com/1.0.0/universal-resolver/identifiers/. This makes the DID-based redirect service also suitable for QR codes, deep links, and similar mechanisms.

Example

Opening the following DID URL in the browser will redirect the browser to the selected service from the DID document:

https://api.godiddy.com/1.0.0/universal-resolver/identifiers/did:web:20230614.dpp.spherity.com:products:tshirt?service=product

The same example using the https://did.re/ short URL:

https://did.re/did:web:20230614.dpp.spherity.com:products:tshirt?service=product

A QR code with this short URL: