[OpenID] host-meta and "acct:"

[Will Norris]

I have no idea what the resulting document should be... that would up  
to your hypothetical spec.

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On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let us take the example of a hypothetical spec that allow http  
> content negotiation. Now if http://joe.com were to support this  
> spec, and a request is made for content type "application/xrd+xml"  
> at http://joe.com, what should be the Resource returned by http://joe.com?
> 1) The host-meta of http://joe.com?
> 2) Or Joe's personal XRD (http://joe.com happens to be his OpenID  
> too).
>
> My contention is that both XRD's are same and both will have the  
> same Subject http://joe.com. It is the application requesting the  
> Resource that will differentiate the Resource based on context.
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:20 AM, John Kemp <john at jkemp.net> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 4:36 PM, John Panzer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
> (3) My XRD has no Subject element, so I use as its Subject the URI  
> (user account) I started discovery on.
>
> Which would have the same semantics as an XRD whose Subject  
> contained a (special) URI which meant "the user account I started  
> discovery on" (which is not the actual URI of the user account I  
> started discovery on).
>
> Regards,
>
> - johnk
>
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