1Web::ID(3)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           Web::ID(3)
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NAME

6       Web::ID - implementation of WebID (a.k.a. FOAF+SSL)
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SYNOPSIS

9        my $webid = Web::ID->new(certificate => $pem_encoded_x509);
10        if ($webid->valid)
11        {
12          say "Authenticated as: ", $webid->uri;
13        }
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DESCRIPTION

16       WebID is a simple authentication protocol based on TLS (Transaction
17       Layer Security, better known as Secure Socket Layer, SSL) and the
18       Semantic Web. This module provides a Perl implementation for
19       authenticating clients using WebID.
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21       For more information see the Web::ID::FAQ document.
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23       Bundled with this module are Plack::Middleware::Auth::WebID, a plugin
24       for Plack to perform WebID authentication on HTTPS connections; and
25       Web::ID::Certificate::Generator, a module that allows you to generate
26       WebID-enabled certificates that can be installed into web browsers.
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28   Constructor
29       "new"
30           Standard Moose-style constructor.
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32   Attributes
33       "certificate"
34           A Web::ID::Certificate object representing and x509 certificate,
35           though a PEM-encoded string will be coerced.
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37           This is usually the only attribute you want to pass to the
38           constructor.  Allow the others to be built automatically.
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40       "first_valid_san"
41           Probably fairly uninteresting. This is the first subjectAltName
42           value found in the certificate that could be successfully
43           authenticated using Web::ID. An Web::ID::SAN object.
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45       "uri"
46           The URI associated with the first valid SAN. A URI object.
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48           This is a URI you can use to identify the person, organisation or
49           robotic poodle holding the certificate.
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51       "profile"
52           Data about the certificate holder. An RDF::Trine::Model object.
53           Their FOAF file (probably).
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55       "valid"
56           Boolean.
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58   Methods
59       "node"
60           Returns the same as "uri", but as an RDF::Trine::Node object.
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62       "get(@predicates)"
63           Queries the "profile" for triples of the form:
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65             $self->node $predicate $x .
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67           And returns literal and URI values for $x, as strings.
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69           $predicate should be an RDF::Trine::Node, or a string. If a string,
70           it will be expanded using RDF::Trine::NamespaceMap, so you can do
71           stuff like:
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73             my $name   = $webid->get('foaf:name', 'rdfs:label');
74             my @mboxes = $webid->get('foaf:mbox');
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BUGS

77       Please report any bugs to
78       <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Web-ID>.
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SEE ALSO

81       Web::ID::FAQ.
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83       Web::ID::Certificate, Plack::Middleware::Auth::WebID.
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85       RDF::ACL provides an access control system that complements WebID.
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87       CGI::Auth::FOAF_SSL is the spiritual ancestor of this module though
88       they share very little code, and have quite different APIs.
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90       General WebID information: <http://webid.info/>,
91       <http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID>,
92       <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/>,
93       <http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols>.
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95       Mailing list for general Perl RDF/SemWeb discussion and support:
96       <http://www.perlrdf.org/>.
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AUTHOR

99       Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
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THANKS

102       Thanks to Kjetil Kjernsmo (cpan:KJETILK) for persuading me to port my
103       old CGI-specific implementaton of this to Plack.
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105       Thanks Kjetil Kjernsmo (again), Florian Ragwitz (cpan:FLORA), and Jonas
106       Smedegaard for help with testing and advice on dependencies.
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108       Thanks to Henry Story, Melvin Carvalho, Simon Reinhardt, Bruno
109       Harbulot, Ian Jacobi and many others for developing WebID from a poorly
110       thought out idea to a clever, yet simple and practical authentication
111       protocol.
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113       Thanks to Gregory Williams (cpan:GWILLIAMS), Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
114       (cpan:MIYAGAWA) and the Moose Cabal for providing really good platforms
115       (RDF::Trine, Plack and Moose respectively) to build this on.
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118       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster.
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120       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
121       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

124       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
125       WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
126       MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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