Re: neither FCNS nor FOAFSSL can read a new foaf card (hosted in Azure). RDFa validators at W3C and RDFachecker say its fine...

On 12/28/11 2:05 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
>
>
> ok that was understandable.
> IF our spec makes a webid validation agent a linked data client, then 
> it can assume the web server is acting as a linked data server - and 
> has the #fragment handling rule. This means it does what Henrys server 
> does, today.
> Today, the spec does NOT say this (or explain the ramifications, when 
> using a conforming "mere" web server). The RDFa example (with relative 
> naming) may work in the logical querying sense, but ONLY when served 
> from a linked data class web server (vs a "stupid" windows server 
> doing exactly what the "even stupider' actual RFC on HTTP spec 
> says/said, just like good engineers are trained to do).
> This also means Im screwed, by using windows native stuff. Its a lost 
> cause, since I think the old rule is baked into the kernel (just like 
> the cert rooted'ness issue).
> lets hope Im wrong, and at least windows can server a stupid FOAF file 
> in RDFa. If someone has a IIS7 rewrite rule that allows a bog standard 
> web site to receive URIs from the net with fragments (and not be 
> rejected early in the pipeline, otherwise), share it. I looked for it, 
> and failed to find it. I have rdp access to the real windows server 
> doing the resource serving, so can fiddle IIS's pipeline (I believe) - 
> even though these endpoitns are supsoed to be "all in the cloud".

IIS7 will let you make re-write rules. The problem is whether you have 
such control in the Azure realm.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd573358.aspx  
-- IIS7 and Azure re. rewrite rules.


Kingsley
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:53:19 -0500
> From: kidehen@openlinksw.com
> To: public-xg-webid@w3.org
> Subject: Re: neither FCNS nor FOAFSSL can read a new foaf card (hosted 
> in Azure). RDFa validators at W3C and RDFachecker say its fine...
>
> On 12/28/11 10:33 AM, Peter Williams wrote:
>
>     Look at two cases in http://tinyurl.com/ck5j6bv
>
>     FOR THIS COMMUNITY, is my site behaving correctly on issuing a 400
>     error, for a GET that, on the wire, bears a fragment?
>
>
> If URL+#me crosses the wire (as it does in the Windows realm) you are 
> basically asking the server to provide access to a resource at what is 
> more than likely a non existent address. Thus, expect a 404 re. Linked 
> Data servers.  A Linked Data Server is works on the premise of each 
> unambiguously named data object being associated with a descriptor 
> resource at an address. The association is managed by the Linked Data 
> Server since it oversees the handling or URIs (be they names or 
> addresses).
>
> The thing about WebID is that the SAN must hold a de-referencable 
> Name. Not a de-referencable Address. As per prior comments, there has 
> to be > 1 level of indirection re. this form of data access by 
> reference. Without this level of indirection we end up conflating 
> Object Identity with Object Representation when using HTTP URIs.
>
> To conclude, if you control what goes over the wire, then understand 
> that the Linked Data server is going to ultimately perform 
> Name/Address disambiguation. Thus, what you GET will be treated as a 
> URL to which a re-write is applied i.e., the URL+#me will be treated 
> as a valid address to which a 200 OK would be expected, but a 404 will 
> occur.
>
> Now #me across the wire is a legacy issue arising from what I hear was 
> a typo, so in reality, a Linked Data Server could have an additional 
> rule whereby the GET URL is now a proper generic URI. Net effect (in 
> our case) would be to no longer use the FROM Clause in our SPARQL and 
> just place the URI we receive in the Subject slot of our query pattern.
>
> Conclusion: the fragment id over the wire handling in Windows (solely) 
> has lead to the confusion we have today. Now this doesn't put Windows 
> at fault since the whole issue seems to have arisen from a spec typo!
>
> Action Items: for use, we'll just add an additional re-write rule for 
> # URIs that cross the wire :-)
>
>
> Kingsley
>
>
>     Henry's site does not issue an error, for a GET on the wire that
>     bears a fragment.
>
>     Is it important to the relative naming resolution (of sparql) that
>     the site support GET requests with fragments (on the wire)?
>
>     In the analogous openid world, it is NOT important when those
>     agents obtained (XRD) metadata. Validating agents MUST normalize
>     the URI, to remove the fragment from the wire-form of the URI -
>     thus emulating a browser.
>
>     By default, a bog standard wizard-driven website built on windows
>     does what I show. One can trivally amend the document so doctypes
>     have the right DTD and the HTML gets RDFa markup. But, IS THIS
>     ENOUGH for semantic web compliance?
>
>     Perhaps this is the core issue.
>
>
>
>     > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:44:10 +0100
>     > From: j.jakobitsch@semantic-web.at
>     <mailto:j.jakobitsch@semantic-web.at>
>     > To: home_pw@msn.com <mailto:home_pw@msn.com>
>     > CC: kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>;
>     public-xg-webid@w3.org <mailto:public-xg-webid@w3.org>
>     > Subject: Re: neither FCNS nor FOAFSSL can read a new foaf card
>     (hosted in Azure). RDFa validators at W3C and RDFachecker say its
>     fine...
>     >
>     > hi,
>     >
>     > you should use http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/ to check your rdfa.
>     >
>     > paste
>     >
>     > 1.
>     http://b3d0c8f68475422784748b65f76b1642.cloudapp.net:8080/Aboutrel.aspx
>     => rdf
>     > 2.
>     http://b3d0c8f68475422784748b65f76b1642.cloudapp.net:8080/Aboutrel.aspx#me
>     => empty rdf
>     >
>     > in the "distill by URI" tab.
>     >
>     > wkr http://www.turnguard.com/turnguard
>     >
>     > ----- Original Message -----
>     > From: "Peter Williams" <home_pw@msn.com> <mailto:home_pw@msn.com>
>     > To: kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>,
>     public-xg-webid@w3.org <mailto:public-xg-webid@w3.org>
>     > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:08:19 AM
>     > Subject: RE: neither FCNS nor FOAFSSL can read a new foaf card
>     (hosted in Azure). RDFa validators at W3C and RDFachecker say its
>     fine...
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Your tester fails against
>     http://b3d0c8f68475422784748b65f76b1642.cloudapp.net:8080/Aboutrel.aspx#me
>
>     >
>     > The stream is literally the RDFa card from the spec (with the
>     modulus changed).
>     >
>     > (The endpoint will provide an error response, should the GET
>     bear a fragment in the URI request arg.)
>     >
>     > While the "snippet" of that spec card works fine in blogger with
>     all test sites, none of the 3 testing sites work with what is
>     actually given. This suggests the spec needs to change its example.
>     >
>     > One notes how the Turtle example is absolutely anchored (unlike
>     the RDfa example). Advise that the spec have identical triples (in
>     different representations)
>     >
>     >
>     > > From: home_pw@msn.com <mailto:home_pw@msn.com>
>     > > To: kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>;
>     public-xg-webid@w3.org <mailto:public-xg-webid@w3.org>
>     > > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:37:48 -0800
>     > > Subject: RE: neither FCNS nor FOAFSSL can read a new foaf card
>     (hosted in Azure). RDFa validators at W3C and RDFachecker say its
>     fine...
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I have spent a few hours getting really to grips with both ODS
>     and linkburner.
>     > >
>     > > Certain things are VERY straightforward.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I logon with a password, and then map a cert to the account
>     (just like in windows). And, I can use the ODS builtin CA, to mint
>     a second cert with a variety of browser plugins/keygentags. The
>     net result is I can do https client auhn to ODS, replacing the
>     password challenge. Technically, a cert-based login to ODS may
>     even count as an act of webid validation (rather than mere https
>     client authn based on fingerprint matching).
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Next, the account gives me a profile page. For any n certs
>     registered (with logon privileges, or not), the profile publishes
>     cert:key. Well done. From cert, infer cert:key. For a third party
>     cert, I can now reissue it (same pubkey) adding the ODS profile URI.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Then I got a real feel for sponging an html/rdfa resource. The
>     proxy prpofile/URI is essentially a new profile, borrowing bits
>     from the "data source" that it screen scrapes. It has nothing to
>     do with the accounts' own profile page. The resultant profile has
>     a proxy URI, and one can put this in the SAN URI set of the cert
>     whose pubkey was in the the original data source (and now in the
>     proxy profile).
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I altered by http://yorkporc2.blogspot.com/ template/page. It
>     now as a webid.cert relation/link. Its a data URI, of type cert...
>     with base64 blog content. Ideally, sponger would now infer
>     cert:key from that link (but not any webid/foaf material), much
>     like ODS profile inferred cert:key from its store of mapped
>     certs/accounts. It would sponge the rest of the foaf card as normal.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I was able to use the ODS webid validator to validate against
>     my cloud/azure hosted TTL card.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I was able to run sparql queries on my yorkporc HTML and TTL
>     resources. I now understand (finally, after 2 years) why the
>     sparql query for HTML gives the proxy name for the subject (with
>     cert:key) rather than the data sources URI. Im really doing sparql
>     against the proxy profile (not the data source), despite the FROM
>     clause in the sparql identifying the data source. When one uses a
>     non sponged resouce (TTL), the sparql result is more insituitive
>     as to subject names.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > i went through all the product documentation.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I learned that you are using the foaf:account as a mapping
>     mechanism (not merely a publication device). If one uses facebook
>     websso to authenticate, it maps to an ODS account whose foaf
>     profile publishes said foacebook account name in a foaf:account
>     property.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > I suspect (but could not confirm) that the foaf:openid
>     similarly enables an openid identifier presented in openid websso
>     to mapto a ODS profile, on login authentication. O failed at any
>     UI to get the system to act as an openid relying party, talking to
>     my http://yorkporc.wordpress.com's openid server.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > The built in openid server (that uses a webid challenge) is
>     confusing. I dont know if the webids and profiles that it vouches
>     for are limited to those in an ODS profile, in a proxy profile, or
>     are for any other public webid (for which a proxy profile is
>     immediately created).
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
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>
> Kingsley Idehen	
> Founder&  CEO
> OpenLink Software
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