Email Address to URL Transformation
Allen Tom
atom at yahoo-inc.com
Mon Jan 25 02:18:30 UTC 2010
Some live examples from Yahoo and Google are here:
http://yahoo.com/.well-known/host-meta
http://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta
We should really just toss the OpenID endpoints into the XRD and call it a
day.
Allen
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>> If I understand the mechanics, it would work like this:
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>> On Packetizer, we would have a URL like this defined:
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>> http://packetizer.com/.well-known/host-meta
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>> Hitting that page will return an XML document called
>> "XRD" (not to be confused with XRDS used in OpenID right now).
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