Ubuntu Manpage: Net::OpenID::VerifiedIdentity - Object representing a verified OpenID identity

Provided by: libnet-openid-consumer-perl_1.18-1_all

NAME

       Net::OpenID::VerifiedIdentity - Object representing a verified OpenID identity

VERSION

       version 1.18

SYNOPSIS

         use Net::OpenID::Consumer;
         my $csr = Net::OpenID::Consumer->new;
         ....
         my $vident = $csr->verified_identity
           or die $csr->err;

         my $url = $vident->url;

DESCRIPTION

       After Net::OpenID::Consumer verifies a user's identity and does the signature checks, it
       gives you this Net::OpenID::VerifiedIdentity object, from which you can learn more about
       the user.

METHODS

$vident->url
Returns the URL (as a scalar) that was verified. (Remember, an OpenID is just a URL.)

$vident->display
Returns the a short "display form" of the verified URL using a couple brain-dead
patterns. For instance, the identity "http://www.foo.com/~bob/" will map to "bob
[foo.com]" The www. prefix is removed, as well as http, and a username is looked for,
in either the tilde form, or "/users/USERNAME" or "/members/USERNAME". If the path
component is empty or just "/", then the display form is just the hostname, so
"http://myblog.com/" is just "myblog.com".

Suggestions for improving this function are welcome, but you'll probably get more
satisfying results if you make use of the data returned by the Simple Registration
(SREG) extension, which allows the user to choose a preferred nickname to use on your
site.

$vident->extension_fields($ns_uri)
Return the fields from the given extension namespace, if any, that were included in
the assertion request. The fields are returned in a hashref.

In most cases you'll probably want to use signed_extension_fields instead, to avoid
attacks where a man-in-the-middle alters the extension fields in transit.

Note that for OpenID 1.1 transactions only Simple Registration (SREG) 1.1 is
supported.

$vident->signed_extension_fields($ns_uri)
The same as extension_fields except that only fields that were signed as part of the
assertion are included in the returned hashref. For example, if you included a Simple
Registration request in your initial message, you might fetch the results (if any)
like this:

$sreg = $vident->signed_extension_fields(
'http://openid.net/extensions/sreg/1.1',
);

An important gotcha to bear in mind is that for OpenID 2.0 responses no extension
fields can be considered signed unless the corresponding extension namespace
declaration is also signed. If that is not the case, this method will behave as if no
extension fields for that URI were signed.

$vident->rss
$vident->atom
$vident->foaf
$vident->declared_rss
$vident->declared_atom
$vident->declared_foaf
Returns the absolute URLs (as scalars) of the user's RSS, Atom, and FOAF XML documents
that were also found in their HTML's <head> section. The short versions will only
return a URL if they're below the root URL that was verified. If you want to get at
the user's declared rss/atom/foaf, even if it's on a different host or parent
directory, use the declared_* versions, which don't have the additional checks.

2005-05-24: A future module will take a Net::OpenID::VerifiedIdentity object and
create an OpenID profile object so you don't have to manually parse all those
documents to get profile information.

$vident->foafmaker
Returns the value of the "foaf:maker" meta tag, if declared.

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