[OpenID] Calling OpenID 2.0 editors (was RE: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14)

[Noah Slater]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:55:41PM -0800, Drummond Reed wrote:
> I'm not an OpenID editor but I remember that there was a great deal of
> discussion around this and there was a good reason (security as I recall)
> that the final redirect needed to be treated as the claimed identifier.

I would love to hear this reasoning because it makes no sense to me at the moment.

> 3) From a SemWeb standpoint, I believe the right answer is that ALL the
> identifiers in the chain - the original identifier, all redirects, and any
> "override" back from the OP - should all be considered synonyms for the
> identified resource. In other words, rdf:sameAs statements.

This is incorrect. 303 redirects do not imply rdf:sameAs.

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