[OpenID] openid and xpointer

Johnny Bufu johnny at sxip.com
Mon Feb 4 14:42:33 PST 2008


On 3-Feb-08, at 8:41 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> can a delegate Openid in an XRD be:
>
> http://www.example.org/file.xml#xpointer(id('calendar'))
>
> if not, presumably the following (after any appropriate URL  
> encoding) is well-formed
>
> http://example.com/?redirect= <http://example.com/?redirect=http:// 
> www.example.org/file.xml#xpointer(id('calendar'> http:// 
> www.example.org/file.xml#xpointer(id('calendar'))

Although they are defined as "Identifiers" (which are in turn URIs),  
the delegate / local_id can be any string the OP can use to identify  
the user; that's because discovery is never performed on a delegate  
identifier.


Johnny




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