diff --git a/spec/requests/well_known/host_meta_spec.rb b/spec/requests/well_known/host_meta_spec.rb
index 98ccd1fe7c1..726911dda19 100644
--- a/spec/requests/well_known/host_meta_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/well_known/host_meta_spec.rb
@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ RSpec.describe 'The /.well-known/host-meta request' do
     expect(response)
       .to have_http_status(200)
       .and have_attributes(
-        media_type: 'application/xrd+xml',
-        body: host_meta_xml_template
+        media_type: 'application/xrd+xml'
       )
+
+    doc = Nokogiri::XML(response.parsed_body)
+    expect(doc.at_xpath('/xrd:XRD/xrd:Link[@rel="lrdd"]/@template', 'xrd' => 'http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0').value)
+      .to eq 'https://cb6e6126.ngrok.io/.well-known/webfinger?resource={uri}'
   end
 
   it 'returns http success with valid JSON response with .json extension' do
@@ -20,8 +23,15 @@ RSpec.describe 'The /.well-known/host-meta request' do
     expect(response)
       .to have_http_status(200)
       .and have_attributes(
-        media_type: 'application/json',
-        body: host_meta_json_template
+        media_type: 'application/json'
+      )
+
+    expect(response.parsed_body)
+      .to include(
+        links: [
+          'rel' => 'lrdd',
+          'template' => 'https://cb6e6126.ngrok.io/.well-known/webfinger?resource={uri}',
+        ]
       )
   end
 
@@ -31,23 +41,7 @@ RSpec.describe 'The /.well-known/host-meta request' do
     expect(response)
       .to have_http_status(200)
       .and have_attributes(
-        media_type: 'application/json',
-        body: host_meta_json_template
+        media_type: 'application/json'
       )
   end
-
-  private
-
-  def host_meta_xml_template
-    <<~XML
-      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-      <XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0">
-        <Link rel="lrdd" template="https://cb6e6126.ngrok.io/.well-known/webfinger?resource={uri}"/>
-      </XRD>
-    XML
-  end
-
-  def host_meta_json_template
-    '{"links":[{"rel":"lrdd","template":"https://cb6e6126.ngrok.io/.well-known/webfinger?resource={uri}"}]}'
-  end
 end