[OpenID] Normalizing claimed identifier (remove the #?)

[Markus Lanthaler]

Hey all,

I just tested the new Yahoo OpenIDs. It seems that they are appending to all 
their some ID, e.g. https://me.yahoo.com/markus.lanthaler gets 
https://me.yahoo.com/markus.lanthaler#a5b3f. The problem I have is that I 
don't know for what reason that fragment is appended and if I should strip 
it before saving the URL (as it is stated in the spec: 
http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#normalization).

That fragment is never shown to the user so it's difficult for an 
administrator to set the OpenIDs for all the users if they cannot tell him 
their full URL.
Any ideas why they do it that way? Any suggestions how I should handle them?


Thanks,
Markus