On 18-May-07, at 11:09 AM, Recordon, David wrote: > Hey Marius, > Good point, committed a patch so please review! :) > http://openid.net/svn/diff.php?repname=specifications&path=% > 2Fauthentica > tion%2F2.0%2Ftrunk%2Fopenid-authentication.xml&rev=325&sc=1
That was fast :-) Looks good, but I would add to that a sentence stating that you SHOULD put both sets of tags when editing HTML pages in order to be backwards compatible. Thanks, Marius > > Thanks, > --David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Marius Scurtescu > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:48 AM > To: Dmitry Shechtman > Cc: 'OpenID specs list' > Subject: Re: Final outstanding issues with the OpenID > 2.0Authenticationspecification > > On 18-May-07, at 1:00 AM, Dmitry Shechtman wrote: > >> 7.3.3. HTML-Based Discovery >> >> A <LINK> tag MUST be included with attributes "rel" set to >> openid2.provider" >> and "href" set to an OP Endpoint URL >> >> A <LINK> tag MAY be included with attributes "rel" set to >> "openid2.local_id" >> and "href" set to the end user's OP-Local Identifier >> >> >> Could somebody please enlighten me as to what's wrong with leaving >> those as "openid.server" and "openid.delegate" respectfully (i.e. >> backward-compatible)? > > The new attribute values are needed in order to signal an OpenID 2 > provider. > > But you bring up a good point, backwards compatibility can be easily > broken here. > > In order to be backwards compatible the HTML page should have two sets > of tags one for OpenID 1.1 and one for OpenID 2.0, both pointing to > the > same OP endpoint URL. Otherwise an OpenID 1.1 RP will not be able > to use > the HTML page. > > Probably the spec should say this in section 7.3.3 and give clear > instructions regarding OpenID 1.1 tags. > > Marius > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > specs@openid.net > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs > > _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs