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	====== Socialuty ======		====== Socialuty ======
		+	{{:docs:socialuty:su-18x26.png?nolink |socialuty}}
		+	Socialuty aims to be a **__distributed__ social network**: each user can have it's own "//web-pear//" (that could host more than one user, anyway), and comunication among pears is made through the socialuty protocol, just like p2p.
-	Socialuty aims to be a **__dinstributed__ social network**: each user can have it's own "//web-pear//" (that can host more than one user, anyway), and comunication among pears is made through the socialuty protocol, just in a p2p fashion.	+	Socialuty is also the first "web-app" implementation of the pear in //php//, but ideally anyone could write it's own, even a desktop one.
-	Socialuty will be also the first "web-app" implementation of the pear in //php//, but ideally anyone could write it's own, even a desktop one, provided she respect the protocol.	+	Users can edit and optionally share **blog, links, photos, calendar, addressbook, files, etc**.
-		+	The architecture is modular and anyone can write some custom plugins, with the aid of the su API.
-	This document is about both the protocol //spec// and the web-app //requirements & design//, written down while on the job...	+
-		+
-	Enjoy!	+
-		+
-		+
-	===== Login =====	+
-		+
-	==== spec ====	+
-		+
-	There is no protocol spec for login: each pear can implement its own.	+
-		+
-		+
-	==== requirements ====	+
-		+
-	To use the app users must be logged in.	+
-		+
-	This is done through an html form containing username and password field.\\	+
-	https protocol must be preferred.\\	+
-	Password are stored/sent as MD5 hashes.	+
-		+
-		+
-	==== design ====	+
-		+
-	users table:	+
-		+
-	^                      users                                         ^^^	+
-	|**//username//**|''varchar(20) PK''             |                     |	+
-	|//password//    |''varchar(20) not null''       |(MD5 hash)           |	+
-	|//firstname//   |''varchar(20) not null''       |                     |	+
-	|//lastname//    |''varchar(20) not null''       |                     |	+
-	|//picture//     |''varchar(20)''                |(url of the profile picture) |	+
-		+
-		+
-		+
-	===== Registration =====	+
-		+
-	==== spec ====	+
-		+
-	An user can optionally register to the socialuty.org site as to allow people to find her.\\	+
-	Here is the http to the registration page:	+
-		+
-	<code>	+
-		+
-	POST /register.php HTTP/1.1	+
-	host: www.socialuty.org	+
-	User-Agent: <useragent>	+
-	Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded	+
-	Content-Length: <length>	+
-		+
-	firstname=[firstname]	+
-	&lastname=[lastname]	+
-	&country=[country]	+
-	&city=[city]	+
-	&home=[pear-url]	+
-		+
-		+
-	HTTP/1.1 200 OK	+
-	Content-Type: text/xml	+
-		+
-	<socialuty:response xmlns:socialuty="www.socialuty.org">	+
-	<socialuty:result>	+
-	<code>S_OK</ code>	+
-	<description>welcome</description>	+
-	<details>...</details>	+
-	</socialuty:result>	+
-	<socialuty:data>	+
-	<userid>1234567890</userid>	+
-	</socialuty:data>	+
-	</socialuty:response>	+
-		+
-	</code>	+
		+	All content is searchable by tags and each node of the network asks in its neightborood that in turn spread the search to its neightborood and so on.
		+	===== Software documentation =====
		+	* [[docs:socialuty:requirements|docs:socialuty:requirements]]