Using email address as OpenID identifier

[Dick Hardt]

On 1-Apr-08, at 10:02 PM, Paul E. Jones wrote:

> Dick,
>
> On this point, I really have to disagree.  Even I rarely enter a URL  
> into a web browser. Why bother when I know the web browser will  
> figure it out for me.  I don’t want to type http:// or https:// :-)

I don't want to type the protocol either. I should have been more  
clear, the user types yahoo.com or aol.com into the prompt. Since this  
is NOT the identifier (which is a useful aspect of this method) -- the  
risks of NOT using https are much lower.

-- Dick
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