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

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Mon Nov 3 05:10:47 UTC 2008


SitG Admin wrote:
> 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?
> 

I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying to achieve here. Surely the 
https: URI scheme already provides a way to indicate that a URL should 
be fetched over SSL?




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