[RAS] OpenID

[Ivan Kurmanov]

Agreed.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Christian Zimmermann <
zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:

> OK then. Keep it simple.
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
>
>  The OpenID standard does not provide a means for exposing the user name or
>> other details from the provider (RAS in our case) to the relying part
>> (CitEc in our case). It only provides a means to check if the user is
>> registered and actually controlling the URL he has provided. For example,
>> if the user is actually the owner of the profile page. To expose the name
>> and shortid we will need to somehow extend the OpenID protocol or simply
>> let the relying party parse the profile page and extract the needed data
>> from there.
>>
>> -ivan
>>
>> On Thursday, April 19, 2012, Christian Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>  I think the name is essential. having the  short-id separately would be
>>> good as well. That is: the using service would not need to parse the URL.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
>>>
>>>  Jose,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jose Manuel Barrueco <barrueco at uv.es>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Great! I'm ready to follow your advice in this issue. The script
>>>>> that could beneficiate of RAS-mediated authentification is:
>>>>>
>>>>>      http://citec.repec.org/cgi-******bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.org/cgi-****bin/ui.pl>
>>>>> <http://citec.repec.**org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl>
>>>>> >
>>>>> <http://citec.repec.**org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.**
>>>>> org/cgi-bin/ui.pl <http://citec.repec.org/cgi-bin/ui.pl>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>      it is used to submit references to the cited database. At the
>>>>> moment it requires local users/passwd. The idea woudl be to use RAS
>>>>> users
>>>>> so that we don't need to register them locally.,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  OpenID authentication by itself would mean you'll be able to tell if
>>>> the
>>>> user is a registered RAS user (or not), and you'll have some URL that is
>>>> related to the user and is unique. For example, the user's profile page
>>>> URL.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, we can plan that you'll have the user's short-id (it will
>>>> be
>>>> part of the URL). Do you need any other details from RAS about the user?
>>>> (like his name, for example)
>>>>
>>>> -ivan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jose Manuel Barrueco <barrueco at uv.es
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Great! I'm ready to follow your advice in this issue. The script
>>>>> that could beneficiate of RAS-mediated authentification is:
>>>>>
>>>>>      http://citec.repec.org/cgi-******bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.org/cgi-****bin/ui.pl>
>>>>> <http://citec.repec.**org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl>
>>>>> >
>>>>> <http://citec.repec.**org/cgi-**bin/ui.pl<http://citec.repec.**
>>>>> org/cgi-bin/ui.pl <http://citec.repec.org/cgi-bin/ui.pl>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>      it is used to submit references to the cited database. At the
>>>>> moment it requires local users/passwd. The idea woudl be to use RAS
>>>>> users
>>>>> so that we don't need to register them locally.,
>>>>>
>>>>>      Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Jose,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian says there's a good place in CitEc to use OpenID integration
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> RAS. I understand it that some script (or a bunch of them) could
>>>>>> benefit
>>>>>> from RAS-mediated authenticated. I'm approaching this part of my work
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> ACIS now. I'd be happy to work with you on building this integration
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> both sides: me from the RAS side, you from the CitEc side. What do you
>>>>>> think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -ivan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  ---
>>>>> José Manuel Barrueco
>>>>> http://www.uv.es/=barrueco
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>  --
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>>>
>>
>>
> --
> Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
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