[foaf-protocols] Standardising the foaf+ssl protocol to launch the Social Web

[Toby Inkster]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:30:36 +0200
Thomas Roessler <tlr at w3.org> wrote:

> - What are the benefits of using one over the other in the cases
> where they overlap?

One of the key FOAF+SSL benefits over OpenID is its RESTfulness.

I can request a FOAF+SSL-secured resource using curl or wget. A typical
OpenID exchange requires various redirections and form-filling, so
cannot easily be achieved using command-line tools like this.

This makes FOAF+SSL a more suitable authentication system for use-cases
where requests will be made by software agents rather than people -
e.g. securing a SPARQL endpoint or an API endpoint.

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