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John Panzer:
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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 moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.abstractioneer.org">www.abstractioneer.org</a> --
while maintaining a (302) redirect from
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abstractioneer.org">http://abstractioneer.org</a> to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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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Does this matter at all? Because the OP must return the claimed ID
anyway, so what do we care which URL it gets directed too? If you enter
"abstractioneer.org" or "myid.abstractioneer.org" doesn't really matter
if discovery works correctly, since the claimed ID will return always
"myid.abstractioneer.org". Or do I miss the point here?<br>
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