Fwd: [OpenID] openid error mode

[Johannes Ernst]

The general list had nothing to say so far. Is that something that should be covered in an addendum / errata ... or other document?


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> From: Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us>
> Date: January 4, 2010 10:18:48 PST
> To: openid-general at lists.openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID] openid error mode
> 
> Apparently a few people in the wild do implement openid.error. What do RPs do when they receive that? Display it to the user? Throw up their hands and say "something weird happened"?
> 
> There are plenty of problems with the way openid.error is (under-) defined, including:
> - not internationalizable
> - not computer-interpretable
> - unclear whether the conveyed text message is formatted, or how.
> 
> Questions:
> 1. Could we come up with an enumeratable list of error conditions, or are everybody's possible errors different? Error codes?
> 2. Should we define that the error message be used for internal logging or to be shown to the user?
> 3. If the latter, should we define that the locale of the error message should be the user's locale at the OP? What if the problem is that the user is not known at the OP? Should the RP pass on a locale?
> 
> Happy new year everybody,
> 
> 
> 
> Johannes.
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