- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:05:18 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-xg-webid@w3.org
On 8 Dec 2011, at 18:58, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 12/7/11 10:54 AM, Henry Story wrote: >> >> What am I misreading in what Peter wrote clearly here: >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-webid/2011Dec/0059.html >> >> [[ >> My work was about running a validation agent on IIS. Peter argued that IIS could not process a client certificate (self-signed or otherwise) that was not rooted on the windows host, on which IIS (or other native https server app) is listening. Does anyone claim this argument is invalid? >> ]] > > Henry / Peter, > > Since I claim IE and IIS operate on the same rules, we should qualify this matter a little. > > Peter's fundamental claim is this: you cannot trivially implement an IIS based WebID verifier using the WebID protocol. We haven't attempted to do this (yet, but we might), so his position stands until proven otherwise. > > My fundamental claim: you can use IE on Windows re. the client side of WebID verification i.e., I can generate certs. with WebID watermarks using IE. I can also verify my WebIDs using any WebID verifier. > > Conclusion: > Peter's current position doesn't in anyway eliminate Windows as WebID exploitation platform. Neither does it exclude IE as a browser (user agent) from which users can exploit WebID. > > The only question is the degree of difficulty associated with implementing a verifier using IIS or making IIS act as a client to other WebID verifiers. Right now, until proven otherwise, it seems more difficult that pursuing the same endeavor using Apache. I agree with your summary. That is how I read it too. :-) Henry > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder& CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > > > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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