[OpenID] Mis-using generation identifiers to request SSL treatment

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Mon Nov 3 02:24:27 UTC 2008


If we can use "myid.com/me#001" to distinguish between multiple 
accounts at that Provider with "me" as the username, and this will be 
treated as a different user by the RP (even if the "#001" part isn't 
displayed), couldn't we use "#ssl=true" to let discerning RP's know 
that they should request "https://myid.com/me#ssl=true" instead of 
the regular HTTP version, and how many websites could we expect to 
choke on the '#' part?

-Shade



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