[OpenID] Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

[John Panzer]

Some thoughts...

I own abtractioneer.org.  Due to the vagaries of technology not under my 
control, I'm forced to actually host content on a subdomain -- 
www.abstractioneer.org -- while maintaining a (302) redirect from 
http://abstractioneer.org to http://www.abstractioneer.org.  The latter 
actually has the openid metadata.  This will be true for all 
Blogger-hosted blogs, so it's not just me.  So there's some annoyance 
there, I apparently must be known as www.  That's not great.

What about when a page moves?  Specifically, on Blogger if you acquire a 
custom domain for your blog, your old x.blogger.com page redirects to 
the new domain. The idea is to not break links, bookmarks, or other 
things that depend on the URLs.  So abstractioneer.blogspot.com 
currently redirects to www.blogspot.com.  But what if I had established 
an account as abstractioneer.blogspot.com on some service, do the custom 
domain thing, and then need to go back and login to that service?  If 
resolution works as below, I can never authenticate as 
abstractioneer.blogspot.com.  But if the service remembered the URL I 
provided, I could choose, by providing abstractioneer.blogspot.com or 
abstractioneer.org to the site depending on the site.

John

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:04:15PM -0500, John Kemp wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for explaining your issue so well - I'm sorry if I seem dense,
>> but I'm just trying to understand the practical effect of this on the
>> OpenID protocol...
>>     
>
> Thank you for taking the time to step through it with me, I appreciate it's an
> edge case, but stil it's worthy of some attention IMHO.
>
> I will wait for some other people to chip in with opionions on this list.
>
> Thanks again,
>
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