HTTP Authentication Bindings for "two-party" OpenID Authentication

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Sun Apr 1 05:23:08 UTC 2007


On Mar 31, 2007, at 18:33, John Panzer wrote:

> But there's no (standard) way to tell
> whether a particular URI + method requires authorization without just
> trying it.

I've long advocated "marking" URLs with Yadis meta-data for that  
purpose, and my understanding is that OpenID Auth 2.0 will be the  
first step in that direction.


Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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