[OpenID] XRD/YADIS validator roughed in
Sam Ruby
rubys at intertwingly.net
Thu Jan 4 18:42:31 UTC 2007
I've roughed in and deployed (but not advertised) a skeletal XRD
validator, based on taking an example from the specification as a test case:
http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/ext/xrd/
Validating this produces one warning concerning the Media Type:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feedvalidator.org/testcases/ext/xrd/spec_noerr.xml
My own XRDS file is served with the correct Media Type, so produces no
warning:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fintertwingly.net%2Fpublic%2Fyadis.xrdf
= = =
Before anybody gets too excited, here is the bulk of the code needed to
rough this in:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/src/feedvalidator/xrd.py
Not much there, eh? Still, that's enough to flag anything that is not
supposed to be there, any URI values that aren't IRIs (my switching the
validating rule, I can quickly downgrade this to URIs, if desired),
priorities which aren't non-negative integers, etc.
At this point, anything that is possible in Python is possible.
The front end should utilize the JanRain Python library to aid in the
discovery of the YADIS document, as Dick suggested.
The back end should add a lot more domain specific knowledge --
something I don't have, but I'm hoping I can find on this mailing list.
For example, want a warning when http://openid.net/signon/1.0 is found
encouraging people to upgrade to http://openid.net/signon/2.0? No
problem. All warnings and errors link to a page which contains more
information on the condition found, which in turn can link to reference
documenation or further discussion.
Finally, some sort of canonical "valid XRDS!" or "valid YADIS!" icon is
required.
- Sam Ruby
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