[OpenID] Yahoo issue

[Allen Tom]

Hi Shane,

My understanding of Section 7.3 of the OpenID 2.0 spec is that Yadis 
discovery must be supported, and that RPs must implement Yadis discovery 
before defaulting to HTML discovery.

Implementing HTML discovery on http://www.yahoo.com isn't a great idea 
because parsing the Yahoo Front Page is a lot to digest to just extract 
the OP endpoint url. We also only want to insert the OpenID hooks on the 
Yahoo Front Page only for OpenID requests because we want to keep the 
page as lightweight as possible.

We've coded up the fix to the SHA256 error that you reported, and it'll 
be pushed out to our production servers early next week.

Thanks
Allen


Shane B Weeden wrote:
>
> That is probably just a sign that the site doesn't support XRDS 
> discovery, and after all this is an optional part of the RP spec. 
> Plenty of RP implementations don't, particularly 1.1 RP's. Any outlook 
> on correcting the assocication error response from yahoo I found?

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