[PROPOSAL] Handle "http://user at example.com" Style Identifiers
David Fuelling
sappenin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 23:28:14 UTC 2006
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> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Handle "http://user@example.com" Style Identifiers
>
> Sometimes these things will be character-for-character identical to a
> given email address by coincidence, but there's no way to enforce this
> nor any guarantee that the user controlling http://blah@example.com/ is
> the same user that controls mailto:blah at example.com.
>
Can you provide an example (real or otherwise) of such a scenario? Do you
really envision any domain owner giving 'http://blah@example.com' to one
person, whilst giving 'mailto:blah at example.com' to a different user?
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