[OpenID] XRDS RP discovery when dynamic pages allow logins?

Andrew Arnott andrewarnott at gmail.com
Sun May 25 16:34:33 UTC 2008


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From: Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenID] XRDS RP discovery when dynamic pages allow logins?
To: John <jpanzer at acm.org>


Thanks, John.

Can you (or anyone else) give or point to a simple example of an XRDS
document using this?  And what does "Needs an extension" mean?  That it's
not done as a spec in solving my problem, or that I need to reference some
extension namespace when I do this?

Thanks again.


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:06 AM, John <jpanzer at acm.org> wrote:

> Suggestion: use uri templates (URI-Template element instead of URI). Needs
> an extension.
>
> -John
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 7:33 AM, "Andrew Arnott" <andrewarnott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  According to the OpenID 2.0 spec (as I read it), the RP discovery feature
>> requires that the return_to URL be found in the XRDS doc published by the RP
>> at the realm URL.  However, some sites, such as blogs, allow logging in on
>> virtually every page on the site (thousands).  How should this be handled in
>> the XRDS document since it can't be practical to include thousands of
>> potential return_to URLs in the XRDS doc?
>>
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