Motivating Use Case: Rich User Agents (RUA) can enhance the OpenID user experience. RUAs are either browser that have been extended, or that have an extension that supports OpenID.
In order for the RUA to detect that a site supports OpenID, it sees a form with a single input with a "name" of openid_identiifier. The RUA can then look at the action and post the data directly to the RP. Proposal Modify 8.1 to: ... The form field's "name" attribute MUST have the value "openid_identifier" as to allow User Agents to automatically prefill the End User's Identifier when visiting a Relying Party. This also allows Rich User Agents to detect the site supports OpenID and to invoke a rich interface. Relying Party's that are implementing check_immediate MUST include an "action" in the form so that user agents that do not support JavaScript will still be able to work, and Rich User Agents will be able to directly submit data to the Relying Party. _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
