[OpenID] Nascar-fix? Austin King: Federating websites via the Repo design pattern

[George Fletcher]

I like the progressive enhancement aspects of this solution, but I'd 
still rather see passive markup on the part of the web site 
(http://bob.example.com/bob). It seems like this is what host-meta is 
designed for. The host-meta can define OStatus endpoints for posting 
data, or defining bob's OStatus "handle" that Alice's "browser" can use. 
I realize this approach puts more of the identity and federation smarts 
in the user's "client" rather than in the web, but I still see the 
"client" as the best option for a consumer friendly seamless experience.

Thanks,
George

On 7/31/10 11:42 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
> It's a promising direction, but suffers the same issue as the 
> XAuth.org approach, which is that you would always have to visit your 
> provider to register it as a handler BEFORE visiting any site that 
> would invoke, say, an "openid:" protocol.
>
> This may not be a problem in practice, since most people will probably 
> visit their primary provider(s) at least once during their session, 
> but it does suffer from the cold start problem.
>
> There may also be an issue with using this approach on shared 
> computers, or where the user has several different accounts with the 
> same provider --- it would be important to consider how one might 
> select a given account from several hosted with a given provider.
>
> Still, I'd be interested in a seeing a demo because this obviously 
> would be a neat approach in certain contexts.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Odin Omdal Hørthe 
> <odin.omdal at gmail.com <mailto:odin.omdal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey!
>
>     I didn't see this was posted to the openid-list. It's a possible fix
>     for the Nascar openid-problem.
>
>     <http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2010/07/26/registerprotocolhandler-enhancing-the-federated-web/>
>
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