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Some thoughts...<br>
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I own abtractioneer.org. Due to the vagaries of technology not under
my control, I'm forced to actually host content on a subdomain --
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.abstractioneer.org">www.abstractioneer.org</a> -- while maintaining a (302) redirect from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://abstractioneer.org">http://abstractioneer.org</a> to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.abstractioneer.org">http://www.abstractioneer.org</a>. The latter
actually has the openid metadata. This will be true for all
Blogger-hosted blogs, so it's not just me. So there's some annoyance
there, I apparently must be known as www. That's not great.<br>
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What about when a page moves? Specifically, on Blogger if you acquire
a custom domain for your blog, your old x.blogger.com page redirects to
the new domain. The idea is to not break links, bookmarks, or other
things that depend on the URLs. So abstractioneer.blogspot.com
currently redirects to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.blogspot.com">www.blogspot.com</a>. But what if I had established
an account as abstractioneer.blogspot.com on some service, do the
custom domain thing, and then need to go back and login to that
service? If resolution works as below, I can never authenticate as
abstractioneer.blogspot.com. But if the service remembered the URL I
provided, I could choose, by providing abstractioneer.blogspot.com or
abstractioneer.org to the site depending on the site.<br>
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John<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:04:15PM -0500, John Kemp wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks for explaining your issue so well - I'm sorry if I seem dense,
but I'm just trying to understand the practical effect of this on the
OpenID protocol...
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Thank you for taking the time to step through it with me, I appreciate it's an
edge case, but stil it's worthy of some attention IMHO.
I will wait for some other people to chip in with opionions on this list.
Thanks again,
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Noah Slater <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://bytesexual.org/"><http://bytesexual.org/></a>
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