[OpenID] Attribute Exchange size of attributes

[Andrew Arnott]

Thanks, Prabath.  Dick and I carried the conversation on off the list (I
forgot to hit Reply All), and I came to the same section in the spec that
you just quoted.  I appreciate you volunteering it though.

What is the accepted threshold for switching from GET to POST?  I've heard
3KB as one size suggested. Is that pretty commonly accepted?

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Dick.
>
> My gosh.  I thought I'd read the whole spec, but I guess I somehow missed.
> 5.2.2.  HTML FORM RedirectionThanks for the tip.
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>
>> It is a redirected POST using JavaScript in the page. You send down the
>> page and onload, the JS posts the data. It is covered in the OpenID 2.0
>> spec.
>>
>> On 22-May-08, at 9:41 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:
>>
>> Interesting.  Can you help me understand how the RP can use POST for an
>> indirect message?  I've only heard of redirects that result in GET requests.
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>>
>>> OpenID allows the RP and OP to use POST. Not sure why you think it is
>>> always a GET.
>>>
>>> On 22-May-08, at 9:20 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:
>>>
>>>  It would be nice if the Attribute Exchange extension somehow allowed for
>>>> a way to use POST to facilitate large attribute values.  But since we're
>>>> using redirects for all communication I don't know how this could happen.
>>>>  Any ideas?  Has this been considered already?
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