Tomasz Sterna wrote: > Dnia 2008-10-15, śro o godzinie 14:35 +0100, Dave Cridland pisze: >>> Thus I am looking for a way to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to >>> http://open.id/someone without the XMPP protocol involvement. >> What if the XSF ran a HTTP-based service, which'd let Open ID web >> services take "xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]", map it to >> "http://openid.jabber.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which'd reolve into a >> redirect to the user's actual OpenID service, as discovered by PEP or >> some such? > > Good idea. The only weak point I see is centralisation.
Yeah, I don't like centralized solutions, especially if they depend on xmpp.org/jabber.org infrastructure. ;-) > Maybe we could create a TXT DNS record in the XMPP server domain > pointing to a service doing the translation? > (DNS resolution is not really an overhead for HTTP server.) > > Ex.: > > server.org IN TXT "openid http://openid.server.org/?jid="; > > which concatenated with JID gives > http://openid.server.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] that serves/redirects to > OpenID server. > > Or maybe we could use SRV record type somehow? Let's see what the OpenID folks are thinking for email addresses -- I'm sure the same basic ideas would apply to JabberIDs. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list FAQ: http://www.jabber.org/discussion-lists/jdev-faq Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________
