Re: WebID Test Suite

KUTGW, Bergi!

>   Next one might wonder if having such a service return the same  
> information in machine readable format (RDF) would not also be  
> useful... If it is we could agree on an ontology. Any ideas here?

Please let's not reinvent the wheel. There are existing vocabs for  
describing tests [1] and reporting [2], see for example the RDFa Test  
Suite for how it's used ...
Cheers,
	Michael

[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/03/test-description
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
[3] http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/test-suite/manifest.ttl
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On 23 Mar 2011, at 09:08, Henry Story wrote:

> Hi Bergi,
>
> great to see some progress being made on this issue.
>
> A few questions:
>
> - what is the licence for the code? BSD/Apache or GNU would be great.
>
> - I am not quite sure what you are testing here. Well, it seems like  
> you are testing the validity of a particular webid certificate, to  
> see if it matches the foaf file. ie: if it would authenticate you.  
> This would be somewhat similar then to the foaf.me simple login page
>   http://foaf.me/entry.php
>  I suppose all implementations should have a component of this kind,  
> to help the developers of the component, administrators and users  
> work out why someone cannot log it. Is it their certificate that is  
> wrong? Their foaf? Which part of each? and so on.
>
>   But if that is the case then the User Interface to your component  
> could be a lot simpler. You just need to set it up as a service, and  
> people can go to the certificate test page, and try to log in with  
> their browser. You could then have a page which goes into details in  
> human readable form about what failed or succeeded.
>
>   Next one might wonder if having such a service return the same  
> information in machine readable format (RDF) would not also be  
> useful... If it is we could agree on an ontology. Any ideas here?
>
>
> 	Henry
>
> On 22 Mar 2011, at 23:20, bergi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have created a little WebID test suite. It's based on JUnit and  
>> apache
>> HttpClient. To test your own webid implementation you have to  
>> create an
>> endpoint which outputs all valid agents comma seperated. In the
>> default.properties file you have to change the endpoint to your own  
>> url,
>> the endpoint certificate to your own certificate in pem format. The
>> publish base url and path must point to a folder which is  
>> accessable via
>> your local file system and http. I'm using a local apache with a  
>> hacked
>> hosts file. Currently the following tests are included:
>> 	- Default (single entry in subjectAtlNames)
>> 	- MissingRdf (404 http error)
>> 	- MultipleIDs (two entries in subjectAltNames)
>> 	- WrongModulus (wrong modulus in rdf)
>> 	- WrongPublicExponent (wrong public exponent in rdf)
>>
>> Issue:
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/9
>>
>> Download:
>> https://www.axolotlfarm.org/~bergi/projects/commons/test-webid-20110322.zip
>>
>> Regards,
>> the bergi
>>
>>
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 09:17:05 UTC