- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:18:28 +0100
- To: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Cc: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Jeffrey Jaff <jeff@w3.org>, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, foaf-protocols@lists.foaf-project.org, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:30:36 +0200 Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote: > - What are the benefits of using one over the other in the cases > where they overlap? One of the key FOAF+SSL benefits over OpenID is its RESTfulness. I can request a FOAF+SSL-secured resource using curl or wget. A typical OpenID exchange requires various redirections and form-filling, so cannot easily be achieved using command-line tools like this. This makes FOAF+SSL a more suitable authentication system for use-cases where requests will be made by software agents rather than people - e.g. securing a SPARQL endpoint or an API endpoint. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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