Doesn't this interfere with the pseudonym identifiers? At the end, this is the same as entering your whole Openid url (including username) in the OpenID input box?
Cheers, Chris Obdam Stichting OpenID NL (Dutch OpenID foundation) Op 25 jan 2010, om 04:12 heeft Paul E. Jones het volgende geschreven: > Allen, > > But, wouldn't that assume that every user who has a gmail.com or yahoo.com > email address uses Google or Yahoo, respectively, for OpenID? > > By having a separate user-specific XDS document, one could specify what > one's OpenID URL -- a URL that could be outside of either of those domains. > > I liked Google's reply to the web finger query. It said "Let's do this!" > > Indeed, let's. I like this idea. > > Paul > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Allen Tom [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:19 PM >> To: Paul E. Jones >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; John Panzer >> Subject: Re: Email Address to URL Transformation >> >> Some live examples from Yahoo and Google are here: >> >> http://yahoo.com/.well-known/host-meta >> http://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta >> >> We should really just toss the OpenID endpoints into the XRD and call >> it a >> day. >> >> Allen >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> If I understand the mechanics, it would work like this: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Packetizer, we would have a URL like this defined: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://packetizer.com/.well-known/host-meta >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hitting that page will return an XML document called >>>> "XRD" (not to be confused with XRDS used in OpenID right now). >>>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
