[foaf-protocols] keygen feature request for iPhone browser
Story Henry
henry.story at bblfish.net
Wed Jun 24 12:41:54 CEST 2009
I just sent a new request to add keygen to the iPhone browser, by
submitting bug id
7002094 to http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ . It may be
valuable for others to report a similar enhancement request, either at
apple, or for other mobile phone browsers. (I don't think it works on
the gphone)
Title: keygen support for iPhone browser
Getting a client X509 certificate on the iPhone is not intuitive. It
requires mailing oneself a certificate created with another <keygen>
supported browser (such as desktop Safari), saving it to the hard
drive after protecting it with a password, mailing it to oneself,
opening it with the mail client on the iPhone and clicking on it. [1]
This really restricts the uses of client side certificates a lot and
unnecessarily.
With <keygen> support on the iPhone, creating a client key could be
as easy as entering a name and clicking on the submit button. An
example of this working (with a very bad user interface - sorry - can
be found here: http://test.foafssl.org/cert/ (entering the URI should
not be part of the user experience).
The keygen tag is now in the html5 spec http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-keygen-element
and is supported by Safari on the desktop, so the code is probably
in the Safari for iPhone browser and just needs to be tweaked.
[1] The procedure is described with pictures here http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/howto_get_a_foaf_ssl
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