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Socialuty
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 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.
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: octet…(bubble)
utillyty:bubble containing:
utillyty:result userid (int) if ok
