[OpenID] Outsourcing headers - XRD(S), CSS?

[Allen Tom]

I think most implementations just use regexs to extract the discovery 
information, since parsing html is hard, especially when it's not valid.

Allen


Breno de Medeiros wrote:
> This is not only a latency issue: Parsing HTML correctly is quite
> hard, because HTML code is often non-standard compliant. HTML
> discovery potentially hurts interoperability, since HTML clients are
> generally not interchangeable.
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Allen Tom<atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
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>> Another problem is that the entire page needs to be downloaded in order to
>> parse it, which is problematic since many pages are very heavyweight.
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