[OpenID] identity url suggested formats?

[Immad Akhund]

The openId spec doesn't specify best practice on exact format of identity
urls. So it is impartial to:

http://id.mayfirst.org/username or
http://username.id.mayfirst.org <http://id.mayfirst.org/username> or
http://username.mayfirst.org <http://id.mayfirst.org/username>

Personally I wouldn't use the 2nd one because it seems confusing to me. I am
using the equivalent of http://mayfirst.org/id/username, because I don't
think normal users get subdomains.

The subdoman username id is used by a few providers now but is in no way a
convention you need to follow a few do the equivalent of
http://mayfirst.org/username (so if you can get away with that its a good
option).

Immad

ps: I am basing my knowledge on the 1.1 spec, I assume it's not been changed
for 2 but correct me if I am wrong.

On 31/07/07, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:
>
> How about typing in:-
>
> javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
> WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl85$ManageMySubscriptionLink", "",
> false, "",
> "https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/manage/default.aspx",
> false, true))
>
> I think the rule is that it is any URL that produces an HTML/XRDS stream
> back.
>
> Obviously its limited to any URL that the consumer has a URL resolver
> for. IN the case above, one would actually be required to first complete
> webSSO.... so one gets rights to access the HTML/XRDS file for the
> associated subscription at MSDN.
>
> As I have just happen to have a USB security device that fills out my
> login web-form fields for me, it actually stuffed that string in my demo
> Consumer when the sites OpenID-login form was presented :-) I just now
> need to get a javascript resolver registered.
>
> It's always useful to stress designs, to identify where limits are... or
> identity where they SHOULD be.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Jamie McClelland
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:39 PM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID] identity url suggested formats?
>
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> Hi all -
>
> I'm very excited about the openid stuff - great work to everyone who has
> contributed to this protocol!
>
> I've just completed a test implementation of a server for May
> First/People
> Link members.
>
> The URL format we are using is:
>
> http://id.mayfirst.org/username
>
> However, it seems like most folks are using:
>
> http://username.domain.org
>
> For legacy reasons, we can't use:
>
> http://username.mayfirst.org
>
> But we could use:
>
> http://username.id.mayfirst.org
>
> Hm.
>
> I prefer
>
> http://id.mayfirst.org/username
>
> Because it more cleanly separates out the domain from the username.
> However,
> it seems like most people use the http://username.domain.org format and
> I
> don't want to adopt a format that is different from what most people are
> using
> because it seems like it might confuse our members.
>
> I was wondering...
>
> Is http://id.mayfirst.org/username valid? If so, are there reasons to go
> with
> one scheme over another scheme?
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome (including a link to RTFM :).
>
> thanks,
> jamie
>
>
> - --
> Jamie McClelland
> 718-303-3204 ext. 101
>
> May First/People Link
> Growing networks to build a just world
> http://www.mayfirst.org
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