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

[Johannes Ernst]

Isn't this a case where the Yadis infrastructure should be used  
instead of Yet Another Link Tag?


On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:21, Drummond Reed wrote:

> 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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Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.

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