[OpenID] host-meta and "acct:"

[Santosh Rajan]

Maybe thats a problem with the XRD Spec you guys really need to reconsider.

How long are you guys going to keep hiding behind such logic?


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Will Norris <will at willnorris.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 7:28 AM, SitG Admin wrote:
>
>  If you really want to do that, why don't you allow for an "Anonymous XRD"
>>> who's Subject is empty?
>>>
>>
>> Why require all XRD's to have a Subject field, if it can be empty? Can't
>> it just be omitted entirely, saving bandwidth from transmitting an extra 19
>> (plus whitespace) bytes?
>>
>> If it can be empty, it can be omitted - as I've said before, the lack of a
>> field can implicitly be taken as the emptiness of a field.
>>
>
>
> you cannot have an empty subject.  See section 1.5.2:
>
>  Unless otherwise noted in this specification or particular profiles, all
>> URIs in XRD documents MUST consist of at least one non-whitespace character.
>>
>
> -will
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