diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 9f825ddfd..fab44a7a4 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -311,4 +311,49 @@ function notice($s) {
 
 	$_SESSION['sysmsg'] .= $s;
 
-}}
\ No newline at end of file
+}}
+
+
+if(! function_exists('xmlify')) {
+function xmlify($str) {
+	$buffer = '';
+	
+	for($x = 0; $x < strlen($str); $x ++) {
+		$char = $str[$x];
+        
+		switch( $char ) {
+
+			case "\r" :
+				break;
+			case "&" :
+				$buffer .= '&amp;';
+				break;
+			case "'" :
+				$buffer .= '&apos;';
+				break;
+
+			case "\"" :
+				$buffer .= '&quot;';
+				break;
+			case '<' :
+				$buffer .= '&lt;';
+				break;
+			case '>' :
+				$buffer .= '&gt;';
+				break;
+			case "\n" :
+				$buffer .= ' ';
+				break;
+			default :
+				$buffer .= $char;
+				break;
+		}	
+	}
+	$buffer = trim($buffer);
+	return($buffer);
+}}
+
+
+function hex2bin($s) {
+	return(pack("H*",$s));
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/include/Scrape.php b/include/Scrape.php
index cc5015165..b4a5dd849 100644
--- a/include/Scrape.php
+++ b/include/Scrape.php
@@ -76,5 +76,29 @@ function validate_dfrn($a) {
 	return $errors;
 }}
 
+if(! function_exists('scrape_meta')) {
+function scrape_meta($url) {
 
+	$ret = array();
+	$s = fetch_url($url);
 
+	if(! $s) 
+		return $ret;
+
+	$dom = HTML5_Parser::parse($s);
+
+	if(! $dom)
+		return $ret;
+
+	$items = $dom->getElementsByTagName('meta');
+
+	// get DFRN link elements
+
+	foreach($items as $item) {
+		$x = $item->getAttribute('name');
+		if(substr($x,0,5) == "dfrn-")
+			$ret[$x] = $item->getAttribute('content');
+	}
+
+	return $ret;
+}}
diff --git a/include/main.js b/include/main.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fb92c774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/main.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
+  function openClose(theID) {
+    if(document.getElementById(theID).style.display == "block") { 
+      document.getElementById(theID).style.display = "none" 
+    }
+    else { 
+      document.getElementById(theID).style.display = "block" 
+    } 
+  }
+  function openMenu(theID) {
+      document.getElementById(theID).style.display = "block" 
+  }
diff --git a/include/notifier.php b/include/notifier.php
index d1f26cdc2..e67ef06e3 100644
--- a/include/notifier.php
+++ b/include/notifier.php
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 
-echo getcwd();
 require_once("boot.php");
 
 $a = new App;
@@ -13,11 +12,19 @@ $db = new dba($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data, $install);
 require_once("session.php");
 require_once("datetime.php");
 
-if(($argc != 2) || (! intval($argv[1])))
+// FIXME - generalise for other content, probably create a notify queue in 
+// the db with type and recipient list
+
+if(($argc != 3) || (! intval($argv[2])))
 	exit;
 
+	$baseurl = trim(pack("H*" , $argv[1]));
+
+	$item_id = $argv[2];
+
 	$is_parent = false;
-	$item_id = $argv[1];
+
+	$recipients = array();
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `item`.*,  `contact`.*,`item`.`id` AS `item_id` FROM `item` LEFT JOIN `contact` ON `item`.`contact-id` = `contact`.`id` 
 		WHERE `item`.`id` = %d LIMIT 1",
@@ -28,6 +35,8 @@ if(($argc != 2) || (! intval($argv[1])))
 
 	$item = $r[0];
 
+	$recipients[] = $item['contact-id'];
+
 	if($item['parent'] == $item['id']) {
 		$is_parent = true;
 	}
@@ -39,7 +48,8 @@ if(($argc != 2) || (! intval($argv[1])))
 			$parent = $r[0];
 	}
 
-	$commenters = array(); 
+	if(is_array($parent))
+		$recipients[] = $parent['contact-id'];
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `contact-id` FROM `item` WHERE `hash` = '%s' AND `id` != %d AND `id` != %d",
 		dbesc($item['hash']),
@@ -49,25 +59,27 @@ if(($argc != 2) || (! intval($argv[1])))
 	if(count($r)) {
 		foreach($r as $rr) {
 			if($rr['contact-id'] != $item['contact-id'])
-				$commenters[] = $rr['contact-id'];
+				$recipients[] = $rr['contact-id'];
 		}
 	}
 
 	$tpl = file_get_contents('view/atomic.tpl');
-	
+
+	// FIXME should dump the entire conversation
+
 	$atom = replace_macros($tpl, array(
-		'$feed_id' => $a->get_baseurl(),
-		'$feed_title' => 'Wall Item',
-		'$feed_updated' => datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['edited'] . '+00:00' ,'Y-m-d\Th:i:s\Z') ,
-		'$name' => $item['name'],
-		'$profile_page' => $item['url'],
-		'$thumb' => $item['thumb'],
-		'$item_id' => $item['hash'] . '-' . $item['id'],
-		'$title' => '',
-		'$link' => $a->get_baseurl() . '/item/' . $item['id'],
-		'$updated' => datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['edited'] . '+00:00' ,'Y-m-d\Th:i:s\Z'),
-		'$summary' => '',
-		'$content' => $item['body']
+		'$feed_id' => xmlify($baseurl),
+		'$feed_title' => xmlify('Wall Item'),
+		'$feed_updated' => xmlify(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['edited'] . '+00:00' ,'Y-m-d\Th:i:s\Z')) ,
+		'$name' => xmlify($item['name']),
+		'$profile_page' => xmlify($item['url']),
+		'$thumb' => xmlify($item['thumb']),
+		'$item_id' => xmlify($item['hash'] . '-' . $item['id']),
+		'$title' => xmlify(''),
+		'$link' => xmlify($baseurl . '/item/' . $item['id']),
+		'$updated' => xmlify(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['edited'] . '+00:00' ,'Y-m-d\Th:i:s\Z')),
+		'$summary' => xmlify(''),
+		'$content' => xmlify($item['body'])
 	));
 
 print_r($atom);
@@ -75,19 +87,60 @@ print_r($atom);
 
 	// expand list of recipients
 
-	// grab the contact records
+dbg(3);
 
-	// foreach recipient
 
-	// if no dfrn-id continue
-
-	// fetch_url dfrn-notify
-
-	// decrypt challenge
-
-	// post result
-
-	// continue
+	$recipients = array_unique($recipients);
+print_r($recipients);
+	$recip_str = implode(', ', $recipients);
 
+	$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `id` IN ( %s ) ",
+		dbesc($recip_str)
+	);
+	if(! count($r))
 		killme();
 
+	// delivery loop
+
+	foreach($r as $rr) {
+		if($rr['self'])
+			continue;
+
+		if(! strlen($rr['dfrn-id']))
+			continue;
+		$url = $rr['notify'] . '?dfrn_id=' . $rr['dfrn-id'];
+print_r($url);
+		$xml = fetch_url($url);
+echo $xml;
+
+print_r($xml);
+		if(! $xml)
+			continue;
+
+		$res = simplexml_load_string($xml);
+print_r($res);
+var_dump($res);
+
+		if((intval($res->status) != 0) || (! strlen($res->challenge)) || ($res->dfrn_id != $rr['dfrn-id']))
+			continue;
+
+		$postvars = array();
+
+		$postvars['dfrn_id'] = $rr['dfrn-id'];
+		$challenge = hex2bin($res->challenge);
+echo "dfrn-id:" . $res->dfrn_id . "\r\n";
+echo "challenge:" . $res->challenge . "\r\n";
+echo "pubkey:" . $rr['pubkey'] . "\r\n";
+
+		openssl_public_decrypt($challenge,$postvars['challenge'],$rr['pubkey']);
+
+		$postvars['data'] = $atom;
+
+print_r($postvars);
+		$xml = fetch_url($url,$postvars);
+
+				
+	}
+
+	killme();
+
diff --git a/mod/dfrn_notify.php b/mod/dfrn_notify.php
index c078afe38..2d9d06fd1 100644
--- a/mod/dfrn_notify.php
+++ b/mod/dfrn_notify.php
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ function dfrn_notify_content(&$a) {
 		$challenge = '';
 
 		openssl_private_encrypt($hash,$challenge,$r[0]['prvkey']);
-
-		echo '<?xml version=1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><dfrn_notify><status>' .$status . '</status><dfrn_id>' . $_GET['dfrn_id'] . '</dfrn_id>'
+		$challenge = bin2hex($challenge);
+		echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><dfrn_notify><status>' .$status . '</status><dfrn_id>' . $_GET['dfrn_id'] . '</dfrn_id>'
 			. '<challenge>' . $challenge . '</challenge></dfrn_notify>' . "\r\n" ;
 		session_write_close();
 		exit;
diff --git a/mod/dfrn_request.php b/mod/dfrn_request.php
index b6ae4346d..7fb55c4bf 100644
--- a/mod/dfrn_request.php
+++ b/mod/dfrn_request.php
@@ -166,6 +166,15 @@ function dfrn_request_post(&$a) {
 			return;
 		}
 
+		if(strstr($url,'@')) {
+			$username = substr($url,0,strpos($url,'@'));
+			$hostname = substr($url,strpos($url,'@') + 1);
+			require_once('Scrape.php');
+
+			$parms = scrape_meta('http://' . $url);
+			if((x($parms,'dfrn-template')) && strstr($parms['dfrn-template'],'%s'))
+				$url = sprintf($parms['dfrn-template'],$username);
+		}
 
 		$ret = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `url` = '%s' LIMIT 1", 
 			intval($uid),
diff --git a/mod/home.php b/mod/home.php
index 44f2a9888..a60e96ccb 100644
--- a/mod/home.php
+++ b/mod/home.php
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ function home_init(&$a) {
 		else
 			goaway( $a->get_baseurl() . "/profile/" . $_SESSION['uid'] );
 	}
+	$a->page['htmlhead'] .= "<meta name=\"dfrn-template\" content=\"" . $a->get_baseurl() . "/profile/%s" . "\" />\r\n";
+ 
 }}
 
 
diff --git a/mod/item.php b/mod/item.php
index 23917161b..4314719fb 100644
--- a/mod/item.php
+++ b/mod/item.php
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 				intval($post_id));
 		}
 
-
-		proc_close(proc_open("php include/notifier.php $post_id > notify.log &",
+		$url = bin2hex($a->get_baseurl());
+		proc_close(proc_open("php include/notifier.php $url $post_id > notify.log &",
 			array(),$foo));
 
 //		notifier($a,$post_id,$parent);
diff --git a/mod/profile.php b/mod/profile.php
index 1caa3478f..e5bc92f5b 100644
--- a/mod/profile.php
+++ b/mod/profile.php
@@ -58,10 +58,12 @@ function profile_init(&$a) {
 	}
 
 	profile_load($a,$which);
+	$a->page['htmlhead'] .= "<meta name=\"dfrn-template\" content=\"" . $a->get_baseurl() . "/profile/%s" . "\" />\r\n";
 	
 	$dfrn_pages = array('request', 'confirm', 'notify', 'poll');
 	foreach($dfrn_pages as $dfrn)
 		$a->page['htmlhead'] .= "<link rel=\"dfrn-{$dfrn}\" href=\"".$a->get_baseurl()."/dfrn_{$dfrn}/{$which}\" />\r\n";
+
 }
 
 function item_display(&$a, $item,$template,$comment) {