[foaf-protocols] ANN: RDF::ACL - access control lists for the semantic web

[Melvin Carvalho]

Looks great, we'll try and get a PHP version working too, based on this...

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Toby Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>wrote:

> http://search.cpan.org/dist/RDF-ACL/
> (Uploaded 15 minutes ago, but may take a while to appear.)
>
> The RDF::ACL Perl module implements access control lists using the ACL
> vocab <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl>. It works quite nicely with my
> FOAF+SSL module; something like this...
>
> ### First you load up your access control list:
>
> my $acl = RDF::ACL->new('acl.turtle');
> # Or even... $acl = RDF::ACL->new('http://example.com/sparql'<http://example.com/sparql%27>
> );
>
> ### Then you need to authenticate your user.
> ### Using FOAF+SSL is a sensible method:
>
> my $webid = 'http://example.net/anon#me'; # default
> my $authentication = CGI::Auth::FOAF_SSL->new_from_cgi( CGI->new );
> if ($authentication->is_secure)
> {
>  $webid = $authentication->agent->identity;
> }
>
> ### Then, let's assume they're trying to access
> ### <https://example.com/private/document>
>
> my $document   = 'https://example.com/private/document';
>
> if ( $acl->check($webid,$document,'read') )
> {
>  # output document
> }
> else
> {
>  # output error message
> }
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster
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> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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