[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Webserver

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-08-02 at 10:53pm, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> On 2 August 2011 22:29, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > On 11-08-02 at 11:02am, Lee Fisher wrote:
> >>
> >> >>>Do we have a preference, apache or nginx or user choice?  Bear 
> >> >>>in mind every option you allow will require support and increase 
> >> >>>time to market.
> >>
> >> Of the two, isn't Apache httpd the only one that supports WebID 
> >> (currently)? I don't know of any WebID support in nginx.
> >
> > There are two implementations of WebID in Debian currently:
> >
> >  * libapache2-mod-authn-webid - Apache module written in C
> >  * libcgi-auth-foaf-ssl-perl - CGI script library written in Perl
> 
> Apache has good support for WebID in that there are custom apache mods 
> developed by Tim BL's team at MIT that can do much of the heavy 
> lifting.
> 
> However any web server that can handle SSL and passes the results on 
> to the underlying script should theoretically work with WebID.  Apache 
> is by far the most tested tho..

Indeed any SSL-capable server can act as a WebID _Identification_ Agent 
by having it use an SSL certificate with WebID hinting embeddded.

Mechanisms as provided by above mentioned packages are needed, however, 
for a host to act as a WebID _Verification_ Agent.

FreedomBox should IMO be both Identification and Verification Agent.


 - Jonas

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