[OpenID] Proposal for email address in URL path as a valid OpenID

[Santosh Rajan]

Aah ok this wont work bcos of trust issue. forgot that.


Santosh Rajan wrote:
> 
> David,
> I had seen that before I posted this. This will also solve a couple of
> problems there too.
> As for the @ not being allowed, cant we just ignore that? Because it
> doesn't really affect the scheme of things here because the RP will be
> splitting this string as soon it gets it anyway.
> 
> 
> David Recordon wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Santosh,
>> You should check out
>> http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol 
>>   as it seems to be the approach many people are liking for  
>> discovering an XRD document from an email address. Obviously once we  
>> get to XRD, it's easy to list an OpenID Provider.  Additionally, while  
>> username@ is allowed before the domain, the @ character is not allowed  
>> as part of the URL path.
>> 
>> --David
>> 
>> On May 6, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Consider this
>>> myopenid.com/abc at def.com
>>> This is a valid url. I think this can be accepted as a valid OpenID
>>> according to the spec.
>>>
>>> If we are going to accept email addresses as valid OpenID's then  
>>> url's in
>>> the above form have a role to play.
>>>
>>> With just an email address the onus on discovery rests with the email
>>> provider.
>>>
>>> However allowing url's in the above form will give the user an  
>>> option for
>>> using other providers for discovery. And he needs to do this only  
>>> once.
>>> Responsibilty will rest with the RP to remember this the next time  
>>> he comes
>>> around.
>>> Seeing an email address the RP has to split it into two parts and  
>>> perform
>>> discovery.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
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