[OpenID] URL normalization issues

[Johnny Bufu]

Hi Gabe,

I think I was saying the same thing, or at least trying to ;-),  
specifically:

On 22-Mar-07, at 2:42 PM, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> I would note, however, that the equivalence rule you mention does  
> have one
> exception - if the path is missing altogether, the http URL is  
> considered
> equivalent to the same http URL with only '/' for the path. To wit:
>
> http://www.example.com/ == http://www.example.com

The OpenID spec gives the wrong example in regard to this, in the  
'Normalization examples' section.


> http://www.example.com/foo != http://www.example.com/foo/

LiveJournal *does* perform the above transformation, which can break  
things for unaware OPs.


So I was wondering what would be a good approach to deal with this at  
a global level (if possible).


Johnny