Re: IdP's Advertising Both http and https

2006-11-12 Thread Dick Hardt
On 9-Nov-06, at 7:45 AM, Rowan Kerr wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 00:42 -0800, Dick Hardt wrote: -Original Message- From: Recordon, David But the security warnings will still exist: - RP redirects me to http on IdP - IdP redirects me to https on IdP for login page (warning) no

OpenID Auth 2.0 and user-agent neutrality (or, OpenID with REST/SOAP)

2006-11-12 Thread Adam Nelson
I've been tracking OpenID auth from 1.0 with great interest. Last summer Johannes Ernst explained to me how it was that one might use openid to authenticate a non-interactive user agent such as a REST API consumer by intercepting the RP's redirect and providing the info from the IdP itself.

Re: OpenID Auth 2.0 and user-agent neutrality (or, OpenID with REST/SOAP)

2006-11-12 Thread Dick Hardt
Hi Adam The switch from GET to POST was made so that we were not constrained by the URL parameter payload limit. As you point out, HTTP headers can be used for moving messages as well, but there was no clear mechanism to do that without modifying all the widely available browsers. I think

Re: OpenID Auth 2.0 and user-agent neutrality (or, OpenID with REST/SOAP)

2006-11-12 Thread Adam Nelson
Hi Dick: I think REST support is a really useful feature, and have described how that might happen in the past, but right now we are pretty focussed on getting browser based auth finalized, and I think the mechanisms for rich clients will be related, but slightly different. That all makes