Re: workaround for Opera and Safari

On 12/23/11 11:40 AM, Henry Story wrote:
> Ok so I now have a demo of a WebID service that works in a user friendly way with all desktop browsers. Here the issue was to get Safari and Opera to request a certificate from the user if he has one, without showing him an ugly ERROR screen if he does not or refuses.
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> You can try this out now with
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>     https://foafssl.org/srv/idp?rs=http://webid.fcns.eu/
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> The changes this required are listed here
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>    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/read-write-web/rev/23a4ecd7b45d
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> especially see the needyLogin function in
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>    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/read-write-web/diff/23a4ecd7b45d/src/main/resources/template/webidp/idp/util.js
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> Merry Xmas,

That's what I call an Xmas present !

Awesome!

Kingsley
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> 	Henry
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>
> On 22 Dec 2011, at 15:30, Henry Story wrote:
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>> So by now every desktop browser I have works well with WebID except Opera and Safari. Well
>> in fact they do work but one has to use the pre TLS-renegotation fix compatibility mode
>> and the server has to ask for the certificate in NEED mode. I am not sure if this is needed
>> only on OSX btw, it may be different on Windows. So what is the problem? Well the problem
>> is that in NEED mode if the client does not have a certificate or cancels the selection then
>> the web page displayed is going to be an ugly error page that would disconcert non technical
>> users.
>>
>> But I think we have a fix for that. All that is required is to make the authentication
>> over AJAX for those browsers! I suppose there is a way for the javascript to catch a TLS
>> error somehow. It can then display an error message nicely saying that no certificate is
>> available, and ask the user in a friendly manner to do so.
>>
>> Any AJAX specialists willing to help me put that together quickly, or point me in the right
>> direction?
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> Social Web Architect
>> http://bblfish.net/
>>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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>
>


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