[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Kevin Turner]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:25 -0800, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> Regardless of the mechanism, I don't know how current implementations do
> "fallback" - it's not clear how an RP would detect that an OP like
> myopenid.com is "down". For example, in the example given, the auth page
> loads just fine - it's "administratively" down, but still reachable by a
> browser... 

Our implementations (those at openidenabled.com) will fall back to the
lower-priority entries if you try to authenticate an identifier a second
time in the same browser session without getting a response back from
the first attempt.  So, even in the case where the OP is
pingable-but-nonfunctional, the user can hit "back" and try again to hit
their second OP.

This is admittedly a pretty poor user experience, but that's how it
works until the client gets a little more intelligent about knowing your
OPs are.

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