Re: [foaf-dev] OpenPals - FOAF-based open source social infrastructure

  On 9/17/10 9:04 PM, Nikolay Krasilnkov wrote:
> Hello Kingsley,
>
> I've investigated the problem and it seems that there are some issues 
> on the both sides - openid4java library and Virtuoso Server.
>
> Fire Bug says that Virtuoso Server
> for "http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen"
> returns this header:
> -----------------
> Server    Virtuoso/06.02.3128 (Linux) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu VDB
> Connection    Keep-Alive
> Date    Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:24:54 GMT
> Accept-Ranges    bytes
> X-XRDS-Location    yadis.xrds
> Link <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this>; 
> rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this>; 
> rev="describedby", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/activities/feeds/activities/user/kidehen>; 
> rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from"; 
> type="application/atom+xml", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/sparql?default-graph-uri=http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace>; 
> title="Public SPARQL Service"; 
> rel="http://ontologi.es/sparql#fingerpoint", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen/about.rdf>; 
> rel="alternate"; type="application/rdf+xml"; title="Structured 
> Descriptor Document (RDF/XML format)", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen/about.nt>; 
> rel="alternate"; type="text/n3"; title="Structured Descriptor Document 
> (N3/Turtle format)", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen/about.n3>; 
> rel="alternate"; type="text/rdf+n3"; title="Structured Descriptor 
> Document (N3/Turtle format)", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen/about.json>; 
> rel="alternate"; type="application/json"; title="Structured Descriptor 
> Document (RDF/JSON format)", 
> <http://kingsley.idehen.net/ods/describe?uri=acct%3Akidehen-kPOU1sBgICGez0ei9/[email protected]>; 
> rel="webfinger"
> Content-Type    text/html; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Length    56327
> -----------------
>
> As you see X-XRDS-Location is "yadis.xrds".
> And it's wrong.
> It should be "http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/kidehen/yadis.xrds".

Ah!

Will have that fixed.
>
> openid4java understands that something wrong in the header,
> but does not make additional GET request for some reasons.
>
> I've fixed it in my local version of openid4java.
> So it should work fine on www.openpals.net now.
> You could make another try to register :)

Okay.

Kingsley
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> On 09/17/2010 01:26 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 9/15/10 7:34 PM, Nikolay Krasilnkov wrote:
>>> Hello Kingsley,
>>>
>>> Thank you for reply!
>>>
>>> On 09/16/2010 01:51 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>>> On 9/15/10 4:40 PM, Nikolay Krasilnkov wrote:
>>>>> Hello FOAF-project team,
>>>>>
>>>>> My name is Nikolay Krasilnikov. I'm PhD student in Saint Petersburg
>>>>> State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics 
>>>>> (SPb
>>>>> SU IFMO) and software engineer in Sun Microsystems (Oracle
>>>>> Corporation).
>>>>>
>>>>> My friend Nikolay Vyahhi (he is PhD student in Saint Petersburg State
>>>>> University (SPb SU)) and I are prototyping some kind of social 
>>>>> network
>>>>> infrastructure based on FOAF and OpenId.
>>>>>
>>>>> The main idea is to split social network to standardized back-end and
>>>>> substitutable front-end.
>>>>> Back-end is rather simple provider of social information based on 
>>>>> FOAF
>>>>> standard and OpenID authorization. It looks like this:
>>>>> http://www.openpals.net/provider/http://nnnnnk.myopenid.com/ 
>>>>> (slash at
>>>>> the end does matter). Provider also supports some security settings.
>>>>> Front-end is any software (UI) that can browse this FOAF network. In
>>>>> our
>>>>> prototype it renders FOAF to some kind of usual social network page.
>>>>> For
>>>>> example here is my page:
>>>>> http://www.openpals.net/profile.html?id=http://nnnnnk.myopenid.com/ .
>>>>> Actually we have two different front-ends — server-based that's 
>>>>> located
>>>>> on http://www.openpals.net and the one implemented as Firefox
>>>>> extension.
>>>>> In the second one there are much more possibilities in integration of
>>>>> different services.
>>>>>
>>>>> Description of idea with pictures:
>>>>> http://www.openpals.net/howitworks.html
>>>>>
>>>>> From the point of view of FOAF we have some simple FOAF parser, 
>>>>> object
>>>>> model and UI representation.
>>>>> Our model is rather simple now, but we are working on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also we are not great experts in FOAF and RDF, so it would be 
>>>>> great to
>>>>> get some expert feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nice looking effort!
>>> Thank you :)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wondering if you've been looking at the WebID project at all?
>>> Nope :)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, I tried to create a profile using my OpenID but it failed. I
>>>> doubled checked with another OpenID site to ensure it wasn't me at
>>>> fault, and that worked.
>>>>
>>>> My OpenID URL 
>>>> is:<http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen> .
>>> I guess that's a bug in openid4java library.
>>> It can not find endpoints on your page.
>>>
>>> I'll try to update it, and if it won't help, I file a bug.
>>> Is it Ok to provide your OpenID in bug description?
>>
>> No problem.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> We'd like to make our ideas live, organize a community and so on.
>>>>> But we
>>>>> don't have much experience in this things. So we'd be very pleased if
>>>>> you could give us some peaces of advice in this area too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Prototype:
>>>>> http://www.openpals.net
>>>>> Project:
>>>>> http://kenai.com/projects/openpals
>>>>
>>>> My best piece of advice (for now) would be to incorporate WebID into
>>>> your service once OpenID is working properly etc..
>>>
>>> As I understand WebID is URI with FOAF.
>>> Is http://www.openpals.net/provider/http://nnnnnk.myopenid.com/#NNK my
>>> WebID?
>>
>> You tell me, your the publisher :-)
>>
>> I can assume, based on the #URI pattern that:
>>
>> 1. http://www.openpals.net/provider/http://nnnnnk.myopenid.com/#NNK --
>> Your WebID
>> 2. http://www.openpals.net/provider/http://nnnnnk.myopenid.com -- Your
>> FOAF Profile which has the WebID above as PrimaryTopic .
>>
>>>
>>> And is it possible to split WebID provider and FOAF provider?
>> Yes, so you have an IdP for generating security tokens (i.e., X.509
>> Certs) that contains reference to your WebID (HTTP URI or email Address
>> style URI). Thus, a WebID compliant Relying Party can then look-up your
>> WebID via the security token (when presented during authentication
>> challenge), and then use it locate the public key that matches that of
>> the SSL/TLS verified security token, en route to verifying your 
>> identity.
>>
>> You can try this out at: http://id.myopenlink.net/ods, and just do the
>> following:
>>
>> 1. Signup (you can use a WebID if you have one)
>> 2. Edit your profile (basically, go to "Security Tab" and Generate an
>> X.509 Cert and Private Key)
>> 3. Use the "X.509 Cert" tab to enable your account for WebID access.
>>
>> That's it. Remember to place your Personal URI (FOAF Profile
>> PrimaryTopic URI) in the appropriate field when using the X.509 Cert
>> generator.
>>
>> If you want to be a little more sophisticated, you can do the following:
>>
>> 1. place a email address URI in the email address field of the profile
>> management form (or if you want to leave a real email address use the
>> "Other WebIDs" field to hold an acct: scheme based email address URI)
>>
>> 2. place your external WebID as another alternative WebID entry
>> (basically indicating that each of these are co-references)
>>
>> 3. use the acct: scheme email address URI as the email address value or
>> WebID value when generating your Cert
>>
>> 4. copy the generated public key (from id.myopenlink.net) over to your
>> external FOAF profile space
>> - associate the public key with your WebID in the external FOAF profile
>> space
>>
>> 5. delete the public key stored in the id.myopenlink.net data space.
>>
>>
>> When challenged, the id.myopenlink.net IdP will resolve your identity by
>> meshing/smushing the data associated with the co-reference WebIDs en
>> route to locating the matching public key -- which resides in our FOAF
>> space .
>>
>>
>>> Now it's possible to change our FOAF provider to other keeping id and
>>> data transparently for other users in the network.
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>> Kingsley
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nick.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kingsley
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Nick.
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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