[OpenID] One-Click OpenID: A Solution to the NASCAR Problem

[Dick Hardt]

On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Francisco Corella wrote:

> It's not a good idea to detect an OP automatically, as you seem to say
> Sxipper used to do, whether the OP is detected using a heuristic or
> using explicit markup in the OP's site. 

We did not add the OP automatically, but we detected that a site supported OpenID as an OP, and then gave the user a choice to add the OP.

> 
> As I said before in response to your earlier statement, the relying
> party can easily detect whether the browser is enhanced or not, and
> fall back on an ordinary OpenID interface if it isn't.

Well, I would say that Sxipper worked better, as the RP did not need to detect anything.

The problem at hand is how to solve the NASCAR problem for un-enhanced browsers. Your title states that you have solved it. Solving it by enhancing the browse is not new.


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