Re: Node.js WebID implementation

On 9/7/15 10:55 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 7 September 2015 at 14:09, Miel Vander Sande
> <Miel.VanderSande@ugent.be <mailto:Miel.VanderSande@ugent.be>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
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>     Time to revamp this old thread. Does anyone know on any progress or
>     workarounds in this regard?
>     The request.connection.getPeerCertificate() still doesn't seem to
>     return any X509 extensions, hence the client's WebID cannot be
>     extracted from the Subject Alternative Name. 
>     I also looked at the Forge
>     (https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge) library, but that seems
>     like a lot of overhead compared to https library. 
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>     Or is there a way to get the raw certificate from the client and
>     parse it with a library like this https://www.npmjs.com/package/x509?
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> Or this
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> https://github.com/magnetik/node-webid/blob/master/src/VerificationAgent.coffee

Actually, that repo hasn't been maintained in a while and it is buggy.
You should use the updated version at
https://github.com/linkeddata/node-webid instead.

--Andrei

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>     Kind regards,
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>     Miel Vander Sande
>     Researcher Semantic Web - Linked Open Data
>     Multimedia Lab [Ghent University - iMinds]
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