[OpenID] Attribute Exchange size of attributes

[Prabath Siriwardena]

Hi Andrew;

It's always safe to go for 2048 characters.

Thanks & regards.
- Prabath

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Redirection
>>
>> Thanks 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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