Net::OpenID::UserProfile

[Benjamin Trott]

Hi,

There's WWW::Blog::Metadata, which might make a good start for this...

    <http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/WWW-Blog-Metadata-0.02/ >

It has a plugin-based architecture, so you can pretty easily write plugins
that interact with the fetching/parsing of the page. As an example,
WWW::Blog::Metadata::Icon:

    <http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/WWW-Blog-Metadata-Icon-0.01/>

Which will look in a couple of places (FOAF, favicon.ico, link tags) for an
"icon" that represents the site.

Ben 


On 5/25/05 2:53 AM, "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:

> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
>> 
>> Actually, this sounds like a much larger idea than just OpenID.  A
>> module that takes an arbitrary URL, retrieves all the metadata
>> associated with it, and sets it up in a usable, format-agnostic form
>> would likely have applications elsewhere.  Suggested name:
>> WWW::Profile or WWW::AuthorProfile.
>> 
> 
> I was thinking the same thing. Make a generic module (what about
> WWW::ProfileInformation ?) which can parse and return all of the
> personal profile data for a given document, and then create the
> OpenID-specific module (which accepts a VerifiedIdentity object) which
> is just a thin wrapper around it.
> 
> However, the advatage of it being bound to OpenID is that it can borrow
> the generic caching functionality from the consumer. I guess that
> indicates that it's a good idea to separate that out into a separate,
> non-OpenID-specific module as well.
> 
> The OpenID consumer has also already fetched all of the auto-discovery
> URLs while it was getting the OpenID server, so there would need to be a
> mechanism to throw in already-discovered URLs as well as the "get
> whatever information you can about this URL" interface.
> 
> This suddenly got a lot more complicated!
> 
> Perhaps for now we should just make the OpenID-specific module for the
> sake of getting things working quickly. We can always refactor it into a
> generic module later, and with it being OpenID-specific it shouldn't
> take more than a few hours work.
> 
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