[OpenID] GRDDL and OpenID

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Mon Feb 5 19:07:39 UTC 2007


Rowan Kerr wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm forced to wonder about whether so many people not directly
>> participating in the OpenID specification effort would be out there
>> evangelizing the "just add two lines of HTML to your blog and you own
>> your identity forever!" concept if those two lines of HTML weren't so
>> easy to remember.
> 
> Well, for version2, you could leverage Yadis and say
> "just add _one_ line of HTML to your blog":
> <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="https://MyOP/server-xrds" />
> 

This works okay as long as the OP declares your OP-local identifier (ie 
"delegate") in the XRDS file, which at this point it seems that many do not.





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