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Org.eclipse.higgins.rpps
Overview
When the user's browser with the Higgins extension lands on a site, HBX invokes the ISS Web UI (the "card picker") to prompt the user to select from among a set of i-cards that can be used at this site. (Note: the UI only actually appears if the user has not previously approved the release and indicated in in the UI not to bother them again). If the site requires authentication, the user must first choose an i-card for this purpose from those displayed in the ISS Web UI.
If the site supports, beyond the authentication step just mentioned, one or more protocols for data exchange then HBX may invoke the ISS Web UI and present the user with a set of one or more i-cards that represent these kinds of data exchange. After this non-auth i-card has been selected, HBX uses the services of HBX Support to set up a channel between the site and an i-card (especially its associated IdAS Context).
HBX Support is also responsible for managing the relationship between the user, the HBX "client" and the Higgins server.
Services
Here are a list of the services that are provided to HBX:
- New account creation
- Verification of HBX authentication
- Returns the Terms of Service text on request
- Form fill support - provides HBX with data from the selected i-card (e.g. a screen scrape and form fill kind of i-card) which HBX to auto-fill web forms on external websites
- Screen scrape support - provides HBX with scripts from the selected i-card (e.g. a screen scrape and form fill kind of i-card) which HBX uses to scrape attribute data from remote sites
- RSS-P support - by interacting with an RSS-P i-card (as implmented by an RSS-P I-Card Provider) it retreives the URL of the RSS feed from the i-card's associated Context and delivers this URL to HBX so that it can post it to the relying site