[Microid] Encode URLs?

James Cridland james at cridland.net
Mon Apr 16 17:00:13 EDT 2007


On 4/16/07, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:
>
> James Cridland wrote:
> > Using this PHP code, I get a microid of
> > mailto+http:sha1:1268bb6d577107e328ccc6341e75da96f31277db
> >
> > Using the JavaScript code at http://microid.org/ and my email address, I
> get
> > mailto+http:sha1:05d7b7fe2c3a67fab3982b50c9a727c04c9aab9c
> >
> > Do I need to encode URLs or something? (It's not clear from the spec)
>
> AFAICS, URIs within MicroID need to conform to RFC 3986. Therefore
> percent-encoding (%hexhex) would be required for certain characters. For
> your web page address ...
>
> http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk?mode=viewprofile&u=1
>
> ... that would necessitate encoding the characters "&", "=", and "?" as
> "%26", "%3D", and "%3F" ...
>
>
> http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk%3Fmode%3Dviewprofile%26u%3D1
>
> Or so it seems to me.
>


Hmm. Still no dice.

I'm now running

sha1( sha1( 'mailto: james at cridland.net' ) + sha1( '
http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk%3Fmode%3Dviewprofile%26u%3D1'
) );

...as you suggest, and it's returning:

mailto+http:sha1:ca62a2077ecb201a309102f3d60e9b059e8076f2

Using the JavaScript code at http://microid.org/ using the standard URL (as
one would expect) and my email address, I get
mailto+http:sha1:05d7b7fe2c3a67fab3982b50c9a727c04c9aab9c

So, either the JavaScript code is incorrect and doesn't convert the standard
URL, or my code is incorrect, but either way... bah.

Any clues would be very much appreciated; it would be good to nail this one,
but as it stands, I'm a little stuck as to what it should be doing.

-- 
http://james.cridland.net/
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