* Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19T19:28:20] > > I've been wondering if the correct approach for handling this is to log in > > using only your OpenID, and then let you choose a profile from among those > > available. "profile" would replace the traditional "user" concept. Most > > users would only have one profile, and that would be that. > > You definitely could keep data about your users. Whether you call it a > profile or not is not really critical. Most systems that allow OpenID also > allow people to create normal accounts, so it's probably not common to > completely throw away the concept of a user.
Yeah, mostly I'm wondering whether the issue is that user is still really needed, and whether these sites have insufficiently embraced the revolution. :) > > http://wishlist.xyz.zy/wishlist/rjbs > > http://wishlist.xyz.zy/wishlist/mjs > > These aren't usernames in your URLs they are ids. It just so happens that in > your system they have the same values. The id in the url doesn't mean they > are logged in as that person. Or at least it shouldn't. I would think you'd > be able to look at the wish lists of people who aren't you. Yes, absolutely, and I didn't ever meant to imply that you had to be logged in as X to see /wishlist/X -- quite the opposite! I want a nice short identifier like that in order to make the URL comfy to give to others. The question is: if that is not a username, what is it? Is it a unique identifier associated with your user? Well, six of one... Or maybe it's a unique identifier associated with the wishlist resource. The problem there is that it's less trivial then to do things like produce a URL showing me the profile of the user: /profile/rjbs /rjbs/profile ...or the user's group memberships: /rjbs/groups ...and so on. There's a lot to be said about a simple unique name for a user. It isn't a necessity -- you could just use a number or guid, if there is no username -- but it seems like the rel'n is that a user can have either zero or one username. > > I know this is sort of a ramble, but it's something I'm thinking about now > > and then. Any other thoughts? > > Don't confuse who's logged in with what id is on the URL. Obviously what a > person can do on that same page will be different if they are logged in and > it's their profile (or a profile in their group). Definitely not. As I say in another email replying to, I think, Aristotle, the place of identifier both in the URL and in "state" are a big deal to me. -- rjbs ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################