[OpenID] openid error mode

George Fletcher gffletch at aol.com
Wed Jan 13 18:34:09 UTC 2010


+1

We currently have a case where we do not support identity-less OpenID 
transactions. It would be nice to be able to respond with a code that 
implies "Not supported".

Thanks,
George

On 1/13/10 1:20 PM, Allen Tom wrote:
> I believe that RPs in general will not be able to automatically 
> recover from errors (other than to tell the user that something bad 
> happened), so any error that's returned will need to be manually 
> interpreted by the RP's developer.
>
> I would like to to see errors returned using standard error codes 
> (machine readable) along with an URL or string for the owner of the RP 
> to manually troubleshoot the problem. The string/url should not be 
> displayed to the end user. This sounds like a very reasonable feature 
> to include in OpenID v.Next.
>
> Allen
>
>
> On 1/6/10 10:04 AM, "Breno de Medeiros" <breno at google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>     I think for developers it would be much more useful to have test
>     OPs that provide detailed error logs (e.g., entire exception stack
>     trace, which production OPs often do not provide), so RP
>     developers can use that for debugging.
>
>
>
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