ISSUE-15: Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display

Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display

State:

RAISED

Product:

User Interface/Browsers

Raised by:

Stéphane Corlosquet

Opened on:

2011-01-31

Description:

Issue raised by Manu Sporny at https://github.com/webid-community/webid-spec/issues#issue/3

When connecting to a WebID capable website, we need to understand how to display purely WebID-only certificates. This is an issue in corporate and university environments where client-side certificates are provided that could be selected when logging into WebID websites.

The usability concern is that people might select the wrong certificate when connecting with a service, or that they don't have a WebID certificate, but are given the certificate selection prompt anyway (which would be very confusing to someone that doesn't know about certificates).

We need to understand if there is a way to specify that only WebID certificates are requested on a WebID-capable website. If there is a way to do this, we need to settle on a naming convention or certificate authority name/chain that makes this possible.

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Related emails:

1. Re: How to request a WebID? (from kidehen@openlinksw.com on 2011-04-06)
2. Re: How to request a WebID? (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-04-06)
3. Re: How to request a WebID? (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-04-06)
4. Re: How to request a WebID? (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-04-06)
5. Re: How to request a WebID? (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-04-06)
6. Re: How to request a WebID? (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-04-06)
7. Re: How to request a WebID? (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-04-05)
8. Re: How to request a WebID? (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-04-05)
9. RE: issue of initiating client auth for parallel SSL sessionids (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-02-28)
10. RE: issue of initiating client auth for parallel SSL sessionids (from ryan-webid@sleevi.com on 2011-02-27)
11. RE: WebID-ISSUE-15: Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-01-31)
12. Re: WebID-ISSUE-15: Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-01-31)
13. Re: WebID-ISSUE-15: Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display (from scorlosquet@gmail.com on 2011-01-31)
14. WebID-ISSUE-15: Native browser-based WebID-only certificate display (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-01-31)

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