Backporting the 2.0 extension mechanism to 1.1

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Mon Aug 11 17:35:39 UTC 2008


Johnny Bufu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/08/08 12:49 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:
>> I notice that, like sreg, the pape extension is supporting 1.1 by 
>> simply hard-coding the "pape" prefix on its arguments.
> 
> Where/how? To my knowledge the opposite is true, per the last paragraph 
> here:
> 
> <http://openid.net/specs/openid-provider-authentication-policy-extension-1_0-02.html#anchor3> 
> 

In that referenced section it says:

     For the purposes of this document *and when constructing OpenID 1.1
     messages*, the extension namespace alias SHALL be "pape".

(emphasis mine)

I understand that to mean that when making a 1.1 request the alias must 
be "pape".




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