Andrew,

The way I am writing the Artifact Binding draft is such that the RP always
uses POST to communicate directly with OP.
RP obtains the Artifact by POSTing request to the OP. Note that a different
nonce should result in different artifact.

Then the Artifact is redirected via GET to the OP through the browser.

The OP returns another artifact (which can be the same with the requested
artifact). Ideally, there should be a one-to-one mapping between the request
Artifact and the response Artifact. (One easy way is to make them the same.)
Then the GET has no side effect on that request and thus does not violate
HTTP.

The RP, upon receipt of the response Artifact, will POST it to the OP to
obtain the assertion. If it was the first time, then it will get a positive
assertion. If it was a repeated POST, then a negative assertion will be
returned. Since it is a POST, it should be OK for the request to have side
effects.

Cheers,

=nat

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Andrew Arnott <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> John,
> Remember the argument I'm making is not "how do we get GET to work better"
> but "how do we stop using GET and switch to POST", since that will alleviate
> the nonce reuse problem.   Coming up with craftier ways of using GET is
> moving in the wrong direction IMO.  I'd like to see OpenID move to an
> all-POST protocol, and solve the HTTP-HTTPS boundary problem.
>
> Even with artifact binding moving the nonce outside the browser redirect
> URL, if only one GET is allowed because the artifact is a usable-once-only
> token, then it's not a GET--it's a POST by HTTP definition.
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