Lightweight authority service

["Wachob, Gabe" <gwachob@visa.com>]

I spent 2.5 hours today seeing if I couldn't write a 90% compliant XRI authority service. I think I did it, using a file-based store.

 

Obviously not a complete enterprise solution, but I suspect something like this is a 80/20 solution for those folks wanting to be their own XRI authority.

 

This should run under anywhere you have python + apache (though with windows its always a pain to get CGI's working under Apache).  You'll need to view the .htaccess file and edit that appropriately (the RewriteBase in particular).

 

Should be sorta self-documenting. Its really simple and minimally conformant (and I won't even guarantee that). It dynamically adds the Expires/ProviderId/QXRI fields to static data kept in files on the disk. Not that exciting, but proves the lightweightness, I think, on the server side.

 

Now, the client side (and the proxy) - I'm getting more worried about that...

 

-Gabe

 

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