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["James Cridland" <james AT cridland.net>]

On 4/16/07, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@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/