[OpenID] Calling OpenID 2.0 editors (wasRE:ProblemswithOpenIDand TAG httpRange-14)

[Brendan Taylor]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:47:41AM -0700, Drummond Reed wrote:
> Although HTTP(S) is used for XRI resolution, the semantics of HTTP redirects
> plays no part at all in determining or verifying XRI synonyms because these
> synonym relationships are at the abstract identifier level and not the
> concrete identifier level.
> 
> I think the same applies to OpenID URLs -- because they are abstract
> identifiers, the synonym relationships are specified by the OpenID
> Authentication spec and not by HTTP redirect semantics.

I'm not particularly interested in arguing about whether OpenID is
allowed to ignore HTTP's semantics; that discussion would be even less
productive than this one has been.

My question is why you would *want* OpenID to ignore HTTP's semantics.
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