OpenID Login Page Link Tag (was RE: PROPOSAL: OpenID Form Clarification (A.4))

[Drummond Reed]

Martin, I agree with Dick, this is a fascinating idea. P3P had the same idea
notion for a site advertising the location of the P3P privacy policy: it
defined a standard HTML/XHTML link tag that could be put on any page of a
site that told the browser where to locate the P3P policy document for the
site (or for any portion of the site).

	http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/#ref_syntax

Are you proposing the same thing for OpenID login?

(Kewl!)

=Drummond 

-----Original Message-----
From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:53 AM
To: Martin Atkins
Cc: specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: OpenID Form Clarification (A.4)


On 19-Oct-06, at 12:35 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Dick Hardt wrote:
>>
>> In order for the RUA to detect that a site supports OpenID, it sees a
>> form with a single input with a "name" of openid_identiifier. The RUA
>> can then look at the action and post the data directly to the RP.
>>
>
> I think it'd be better to implement this as either a META or a LINK
> element alongside a standard protocol for communicating with the
> nominated URL.
>
> This way the site can declare on *all pages*, rather than on the
> forms-based login page, that it accepts OpenID auth. This allows the
> user to go to the RP's home page (or any other page) and click the
> "OpenID Login" button on the browser's toolbar and have it work.

That is an interesting idea. Would you like to take a stab at more  
specifics?

-- Dick
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