Email Address to URL Transformation
Paul E. Jones
paulej at packetizer.com
Mon Jan 25 03:12:00 UTC 2010
Allen,
But, wouldn't that assume that every user who has a gmail.com or yahoo.com
email address uses Google or Yahoo, respectively, for OpenID?
By having a separate user-specific XDS document, one could specify what
one's OpenID URL -- a URL that could be outside of either of those domains.
I liked Google's reply to the web finger query. It said "Let's do this!"
Indeed, let's. I like this idea.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Tom [mailto:atom at yahoo-inc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:19 PM
> To: Paul E. Jones
> Cc: arshad.khan at channel321.com; specs at openid.net; John Panzer
> Subject: Re: Email Address to URL Transformation
>
> Some live examples from Yahoo and Google are here:
>
> http://yahoo.com/.well-known/host-meta
> http://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta
>
> We should really just toss the OpenID endpoints into the XRD and call
> it a
> day.
>
> Allen
>
>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If I understand the mechanics, it would work like this:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Packetizer, we would have a URL like this defined:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://packetizer.com/.well-known/host-meta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hitting that page will return an XML document called
> >> "XRD" (not to be confused with XRDS used in OpenID right now).
> >>
> >
>
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