Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Johnny Bufu
On 19-Mar-08, at 6:42 PM, Manger, James H wrote: > [Aside: Browsers displaying the new URL in the address bar after a > 303 See Other is not a counter-example. Yes, it is. > The new URL is the address of the displayed response. The new claimed_id URL is the address of the discovered informatio

RE: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Manger, James H
As confusing as HTTP redirect semantics might be, I am confident that you will not find anyone that deliberately chooses to return a 303 See Other without explicitly wanting to keep the original URL as the "identity" and the new URL as merely a (stable, cachable) location for the current response (

Web Services

2008-03-19 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Out on the Wiki is a discussion on creating a WS-Security profile to support OpenID. Is anyone planning on taking this further? * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may conta

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin Turner
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 23:54 +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > The fact that some sites incorrectly resolved the redirect to > "/about/" is probably due to the non-standard response headers for > http://bytesexual.org/ -- it contains a relative URI reference in the > location header, while the spec r

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Johnny Bufu
On 19-Mar-08, at 2:51 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:54:20PM -0700, Kevin Turner wrote: >> A request for an OpenID Identifier SHALL NOT issue a 303 response. > > This is even worse and also backwards incompatible. All the OpenIDs > that > currently use 303 redirects, includ

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/03/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:43:46PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > > > Given two backwards incompatible changes I hardly see how one which > breaks > > > existing OpenIDs is favourable to one which changes how some are > handled. > > >

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Noah Slater
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:43:46PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > > Given two backwards incompatible changes I hardly see how one which breaks > > existing OpenIDs is favourable to one which changes how some are handled. > > That seems to be an argument for making no changes. No, it's an argum

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/03/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:54:20PM -0700, Kevin Turner wrote: > > A request for an OpenID Identifier SHALL NOT issue a 303 response. > > > This is even worse and also backwards incompatible. All the OpenIDs that > currently use 303 redirects

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:54:20PM -0700, Kevin Turner wrote: > A request for an OpenID Identifier SHALL NOT issue a 303 response. This is even worse and also backwards incompatible. All the OpenIDs that currently use 303 redirects, including mine, will all break. Given two backwards incompatible