[OpenID] Defn of Absolute URL?

[Drummond Reed]

>[http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0-11.html]
>
>"OP Endpoint URL: 
>
>The URL which accepts OpenID Authentication requests, obtained by
>performing discovery on the the User-Supplied Identifier. This value
>MUST be an absolute URL. "
>
>
>What is an absolute URL?
>
>Is ldap://127.0.0.1/searchop=subtree,<match=attributeslist>, dn=<some
>walled garden DN>  an "absolute URL"?
>
>-- understanding that if it is, the addressed resource/agent may chain
>off the search operation as a proxy, if the ldap listener is but a front
>end to a real X.500 server?

See RFC 3986, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt, section 4.3.

=Drummond