[OpenID] User and password instead of OpenID URL?

[Christopher St John]

On 10/31/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> thomas Armstrong wrote:
> >
> That is, if the user enters the username "fred" you could transform it
> into http://fred.example.com/ before doing the OpenID request, thus
> avoiding the need to enter a URL.
>

Section 7.2 "Normalization", rule (3) says that you have to prefix un-
schemed identifiers with "http://" and use them like that. It's clear
that http://fred is never going to resolve to anything sensible, but
would it still be breaking the rules to transform it to
http://fred.example.com?

-cks

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