diff --git a/activitypub.c b/activitypub.c
index 6127dab..9069d03 100644
--- a/activitypub.c
+++ b/activitypub.c
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ xs_dict *msg_follow(snac *snac, const char *q)
     if (xs_startswith(url_or_uid, "https:/"))
         actor = xs_dup(url_or_uid);
     else
-    if (!valid_status(webfinger_request(url_or_uid, &actor, NULL))) {
+    if (!valid_status(webfinger_request(url_or_uid, &actor, NULL)) || actor == NULL) {
         snac_log(snac, xs_fmt("cannot resolve user %s to follow", url_or_uid));
         return NULL;
     }
diff --git a/webfinger.c b/webfinger.c
index 765c469..c7b73f7 100644
--- a/webfinger.c
+++ b/webfinger.c
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ int webfinger_request(const char *qs, char **actor, char **user)
                 if (xs_type(v) == XSTYPE_DICT) {
                     char *type = xs_dict_get(v, "type");
 
-                    if (type && strcmp(type, "application/activity+json") == 0) {
+                    if (type && (strcmp(type, "application/activity+json") == 0 ||
+                                strcmp(type, "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") == 0)) {
                         *actor = xs_dup(xs_dict_get(v, "href"));
                         break;
                     }
diff --git a/xs_curl.h b/xs_curl.h
index ca90f92..d19d6e5 100644
--- a/xs_curl.h
+++ b/xs_curl.h
@@ -127,14 +127,15 @@ xs_dict *xs_http_request(const char *method, const char *url,
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,  _data_callback);
 
     if (strcmp(method, "POST") == 0 || strcmp(method, "PUT") == 0) {
-        curl_easy_setopt(curl, method[1] == 'O' ? CURLOPT_POST : CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
+        CURLoption curl_method = method[1] == 'O' ? CURLOPT_POST : CURLOPT_UPLOAD;
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl, curl_method, 1L);
 
         if (body != NULL) {
             if (b_size <= 0)
                 b_size = xs_size(body);
 
             /* add the content-length header */
-            curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, b_size);
+            curl_easy_setopt(curl, curl_method == CURLOPT_POST ? CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE : CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, b_size);
 
             pd.data = (char *)body;
             pd.size = b_size;