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[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT jabber.org>]

James Cridland wrote:
> I'm trying to produce a microid metatag for my page at
> http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk?mode=viewprofile&u=1 
> <http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk?mode=viewprofile&u=1>
> (indeed, I own this site, and verify all email addresses, so I'm trying 
> to produce microids for all users)
>
> I use this PHP code to produce a microid.
> $microid_email = " james AT cridland.net <mailto:james AT cridland.net>";
> $microid_url="http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk?mode=viewprofile&u=1 
> <http://www.mediauk.com/discussions/profile.muk?mode=viewprofile&u=1>";
> $microid_hex = sha1( sha1( "mailto:"; . trim($microid_email) ) + sha1( 
> trim($microid_url) ) );
> $microid_hex = "mailto+http:sha1:".$microid_hex;
>
> 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.

Peter

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