[OpenID] An OpenID "mobile" Hint?

[David Recordon]

+1

On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> On 2008/06/05, at 0:03, Martin Atkins wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're looking at here, but surely
>> anything that the RP can "see" to determine whether you're on a  
>> mobile
>> device can also be seen by the OP? They're both just websites,  
>> after all.
>
> The scenario is that I have a preferred OP on the PC-class device  
> that I like because, say, it has a hardware device attached to it  
> for security purposes.
>
> Now I'd like to log on, with the same identifier, from my iPhone  
> that does not have the same hardware device attached: I will be  
> redirected to the OP that then cannot authenticate me.
>
> It would be better to say "I'd like OP1, but only for PCs, and OP2  
> for iPhones, ..." all somehow expressed in the XRDS file so the RP  
> could do the redirect to the right OP based on which device I'm  
> using, all while using the same identifier.
>
> Of course, an OP that supports all devices and all the right  
> authentication techniques appropriate for each device would be  
> better. But that's a hard thing to do given how many possible  
> combinations there are.
>
>
>
>
> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
>
>
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