[foaf-protocols] [foaf-dev] Fwd: [diso-project] Open Friend Request Protocol?

[Sergey Chernyshev]

I think this should also be tied in with identity - recipient needs to be
sure that submitter is who he claims to be.
One way to do that is to require OpenID to match the one declared for
http://example.com/#me

             Sergey


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Toby A Inkster <tai at g5n.co.uk> wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2008, at 16:39, Story Henry wrote:
>
> > Yes. What about a really simple protocol:
> >
> >    your client does a GET on your foaf file. In it's header it leaves
> > information about who it was, a little like the User-Agent fields. The
> > server can then check it's log files from time to time for these
> > fields, and find out if the people that made requests are people it
> > knows...
>
>
> Probably a good method. Another way might be:
>
> POST /your/foaf.rdf HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.net
> Content-Type: application/turtle
> Content-Length: 80
> X-Asserted-By: http://example.com/#me
>
> <http://example.com/#me>
>     <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows>
>         <#you> .
>
> With a script on the server handling such additions by placing them
> in a queue to be accepted or declined. (Or performing some other
> action depending on how it has been configured.) Perhaps the Referer
> field could be "borrowed" instead of X-Asserted-By. Or maybe even
>  From could be used with an e-mail address: the acceptance or
> declinance (I'm sure that's not a word) could be notified to the e-
> mail address - although that might cause a spam problem.
>
> This of course has applications beyond friendship requests.
>
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