[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Oct 21 15:58:13 UTC 2008


>RPs can, using no more than OpenID 2.0, perform OpenID discovery on
>http(s)://user at example.com/

I don't think '@' is an allowable character in domain names. Also, an 
older version of Internet Explorer used to interpret that as a 
pre-specified login name for authentication and would hold onto those 
values (usually two, i.e. 'username:password@') waiting for a prompt, 
but actually SEND the string AFTER the '@'. This was eventually 
removed because it posed a security problem; phishers would use URL's 
such as 'msn.com/account/login at badsite.com' and IE would simply 
ignore everything preceding the '@'!

-Shade



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