[OpenID] 301/302 + cacert.at https + election software +congratulations

[Peter Williams]

>
> Storing the comment form fields (name, email, website) is a feature of
> WordPress.  The default mode of the OpenID plugin is to overload the
> website URL (unobtrusive mode[3]), so that is what is stored there.
>

As a vanity openid user (seeing as I'm pretty vane), I'd like to type for one authentication comment the "website" url of https://cacert.at/homepw?xrds=nym, and https://cacert.at/homepw?xrds=data for another.

The XRDS that flow to RPs for each of these variant urls I expect to differ. By choosing one or the other, I choose which XRDS to supply to the RP.

If the plugin was to be reflecting in its cookie what I typed (vs the finalized URL), the next time I type a comment the cookie would supply most of the typing. The only thing I'd have to do to indicate a different xrds is alter the last keyword. That the comment as posted refers to the finalized URL worries me not; that comes with openid.

As it stands, I have to retype the whole user supplied identifier each and every time.

Obviously other people will hate the notion  of changing xrds=<foo> given the prompt. They may prefer to use
https://cacert.at/homepw, or
https://cacert.at/workpw, or
https://cacert.at/openidpw, or
https://cacert.at/photospw, or
https://cacert.at/printerpw, or
*freeid*printerpw, or
*freeid*photopw, or
=photopw

(Obviously, at the end of the day, this is a poor man's directed id style UI.)