Final outstanding issues with the OpenID 2.0 Authenticationspecification

Marius Scurtescu marius at sxip.com
Fri May 18 19:04:39 UTC 2007


On 18-May-07, at 11:45 AM, Josh Hoyt wrote:

> On 5/18/07, Marius Scurtescu <marius at sxip.com> wrote:
>> On 18-May-07, at 1:00 AM, Dmitry Shechtman wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Also note that it's allowed to put both values in the "rel" attribute
> of one tag [1], which eliminates a little bit of bloat.

Good point.

I'm sure that this will break a few implementations, checking  
openid4java right now...

Thanks,
Marius




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