Re: Payment Protected Resources -- Using HTTP 402

On 28 May 2014 15:51, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> With this complete lack of clarity, the WebPayments and WebID groups
> won't ever leave their Incubation, IG or CG levels.
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> HTTP 402 to a browser user?  Hardly.
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> So obviously there must be at least two server-actors involved, right?
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> If not, the whole idea is bogus since *internal* operations can be built
> as you like and do not need a standards committee for guidance.
>

Been thinking this through a bit more, with almost an implementation ready.

In the browser scenario the 402 is delivered, but so is human readable
text.  The primary means to continue will be the user taking action, by
clicking through a wizard that takes them through next steps.

In the scenario of a robot or spider, if they have run out of credit they
need to obtain a new token, and should be smart enough to know how to do
this.  They keep using this token until that expires, then either get a new
token, top it up, or send funds via a digital signature.

The workflow for the user is initially non disruptive and does not change.
But as browsers get smarter either natively, or through polyfils etc.  The
user experience has an upgrade path to make payments seamless.

The 402 code is already baked into HTTP, so I'm just working out ways to
use it.  I'm aiming to implement a simple pay wall as a first app., but the
same technology could be used for pay per view, throttling, shared content,
protecting sparql endpoints, streaming bandwidth or disk and so on.


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> Anders
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> On 2014-05-28 14:47, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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>> On 5/28/14 1:27 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>>> The most important thing in a payment scenario are the actors and
>>> their roles.  Linked Data in not a panacea.  If there are only two
>>> actors, HTML is all you need.
>>>
>> Again, nobody is indicating that Linked Data is a panacea.
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>> You need to be able to access, manipulate, and exchange data for
>> anything to function in our realm of existing. Linked Data simply makes
>> Data webby or web-like.
>> RDF based Linked Data simply ensures the relations that constitute the
>> Data are human and machine comprehensible.
>>
>> RDF based Linked Data is a vehicle for encoding and decoding
>> information, via statements, in the medium provided by the Web (an HTTP
>> network).
>>
>> RDF based Linked Data is a kind of Controlled Natural Language.
>>
>> Without Language, we are unable to function.
>>
>> Links:
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>> [1] http://slidesha.re/QEqLZN -- Natural Language & RDF based Linked
>> Data .
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>> [2] http://bit.ly/1c3QeEc -- Language .
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