diff --git a/htroot/api/webstructure.java b/htroot/api/webstructure.java
index 776306c41..78d2f4cfd 100644
--- a/htroot/api/webstructure.java
+++ b/htroot/api/webstructure.java
@@ -22,15 +22,23 @@
 // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import net.yacy.cora.date.GenericFormatter;
 import net.yacy.cora.document.ASCII;
 import net.yacy.cora.protocol.RequestHeader;
+import net.yacy.kelondro.data.citation.CitationReference;
 import net.yacy.kelondro.data.meta.DigestURI;
+import net.yacy.kelondro.order.Base64Order;
+import net.yacy.kelondro.rwi.IndexCell;
+import net.yacy.kelondro.rwi.ReferenceContainer;
 import net.yacy.peers.graphics.WebStructureGraph;
 import net.yacy.search.Switchboard;
+import net.yacy.search.index.Segments;
 
 import de.anomic.server.serverObjects;
 import de.anomic.server.serverSwitch;
@@ -40,40 +48,85 @@ public class webstructure {
     public static serverObjects respond(final RequestHeader header, final serverObjects post, final serverSwitch env) {
         final serverObjects prop = new serverObjects();
         final Switchboard sb = (Switchboard) env;
-        String about = post == null ? null : post.get("about", null);
+        String about = post == null ? null : post.get("about", null); // may be a URL, a URL hash or a domain hash
         prop.put("out", 0);
         prop.put("in", 0);
+        prop.put("citations", 0);
+        boolean authenticated = sb.adminAuthenticated(header) >= 2;
         if (about != null) {
             DigestURI url = null;
-            if (about.length() > 6) {
+            byte[] urlhash = null;
+            String hosthash = null;
+            if (about.length() == 6 && Base64Order.enhancedCoder.wellformed(ASCII.getBytes(about))) {
+            	hosthash = about;
+            } else if (about.length() == 12 && Base64Order.enhancedCoder.wellformed(ASCII.getBytes(about))) {
+            	urlhash = ASCII.getBytes(about);
+            	hosthash = about.substring(6);
+            	url = authenticated ? sb.getURL(Segments.Process.PUBLIC, urlhash) : null;
+            } else if (authenticated && about.length() > 0) {
+            	// consider "about" as url or hostname
                 try {
-                    url = new DigestURI(about);
-                    about = ASCII.String(url.hash(), 6, 6);
+                    url = new DigestURI(about.indexOf("://") >= 0 ? about : "http://" + about); // accept also domains
+                    urlhash = url.hash();
+                    hosthash = ASCII.String(urlhash, 6, 6);
                 } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
-                    about = null;
                 }
             }
-            if (url != null && about != null) {
-                WebStructureGraph.StructureEntry sentry = sb.webStructure.outgoingReferences(about);
+            if (hosthash != null) {
+                prop.put("out", 1);
+                prop.put("in", 1);
+                WebStructureGraph.StructureEntry sentry = sb.webStructure.outgoingReferences(hosthash);
                 if (sentry != null) {
                     reference(prop, "out", 0, sentry, sb.webStructure);
                     prop.put("out_domains", 1);
-                    prop.put("out", 1);
                 } else {
                     prop.put("out_domains", 0);
-                    prop.put("out", 1);
                 }
-                sentry = sb.webStructure.incomingReferences(about);
+                sentry = sb.webStructure.incomingReferences(hosthash);
                 if (sentry != null) {
                     reference(prop, "in", 0, sentry, sb.webStructure);
                     prop.put("in_domains", 1);
-                    prop.put("in", 1);
                 } else {
                     prop.put("in_domains", 0);
-                    prop.put("in", 1);
                 }
             }
-        } else if (sb.adminAuthenticated(header) >= 2) {
+            if (urlhash != null) {
+                prop.put("citations", 1);
+            	IndexCell<CitationReference> citationReferences = sb.indexSegments.segment(Segments.Process.PUBLIC).urlCitation();
+            	ReferenceContainer<CitationReference> citations = null;
+            	// citationReferences.count(urlhash) would give to the number of references good for ranking
+            	try {
+					citations = citationReferences.get(urlhash, null);
+				} catch (IOException e) {
+				}
+            	if (citations != null) {
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors", 1);
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors_0_hash", urlhash);
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citationscount", citations.size());
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors_0_date", GenericFormatter.SHORT_DAY_FORMATTER.format(new Date(citations.lastWrote())));
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors_0_urle", url == null ? 0 : 1);
+                    if (url != null) prop.put("citations_anchors_0_urle_url", url.toNormalform(true, false));
+            		Iterator<CitationReference> i = citations.entries();
+            		int d = 0;
+            		CitationReference cr;
+            		byte[] refhash;
+            		DigestURI refurl;
+                    while (i.hasNext()) {
+                    	cr = i.next();
+                    	refhash = cr.urlhash();
+                    	refurl = authenticated ? sb.getURL(Segments.Process.PUBLIC, refhash) : null;
+                    	prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citations_" + d + "_refurle", refurl == null ? 0 : 1);
+                    	if (refurl != null) prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citations_" + d + "_refurle_refurl", refurl.toNormalform(true, false));
+                    	prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citations_" + d + "_refurle_refhash", refhash);
+                    	prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citations_" + d + "_refurle_refdate", GenericFormatter.SHORT_DAY_FORMATTER.format(new Date(cr.lastModified())));
+                    	d++;
+            		}
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors_0_citations", d);
+            	} else {
+                    prop.put("citations_anchors", 0);
+            	}
+            }
+        } else if (authenticated) {
             // show a complete list of link structure informations in case that the user is authenticated
             final boolean latest = ((post == null) ? false : post.containsKey("latest"));
             final Iterator<WebStructureGraph.StructureEntry> i = sb.webStructure.structureEntryIterator(latest);
diff --git a/htroot/api/webstructure.xml b/htroot/api/webstructure.xml
index 578126e1e..a168273ab 100644
--- a/htroot/api/webstructure.xml
+++ b/htroot/api/webstructure.xml
@@ -22,4 +22,16 @@
 #{/domains}#
 </references>
 #(/in)#
+#(citations)#::
+<citations count="#[anchors]#">
+#{anchors}#
+<anchor id="#[hash]#" date="#[date]#" count="#[citationscount]#">
+  #(urle)#::<url>#[url]#</url>#(/urle)#
+#{citations}#
+  #(refurle)#<citation id="#[refhash]#" date="#[refdate]#"/>::<citation id="#[refhash]#" date="#[refdate]#">#[refurl]#</citation>#(/refurle)#
+#{/citations}#
+</anchor>
+#{/anchors}#
+</citations>
+#(/citations)#
 </webstructure>
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