Testing this stuff for myself: How?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Dan Lyke wrote:
> > Apologies for the n00b questions, but every time I ask these I get
> > redirected to a document I haven't seen before and which wasn't
> > obvious to me the first time.
> >
> > I dusted off my old LiveJournal account that I've used for posting
> > messages there, went to http://www.danga.com/openid/demo/demo.html ,
> > entered http://www.livejournal.com/users/danlyke , pressed "verify",
> > and got the LiveJournal page which says
> >
> >    Error
> >
> >    The site you just came from seems to want to verify an identity
> >    (www) that you, as danlyke, cannot provide.
> >
>
> That's a bug in LJ's ID server. You need to put a trailing slash on your
> URL! :)

Actually it's a bug in my demo.  The spec says the identity you have to
pass to the validation server is the final URL you arrive at after
following redirects.

My demo knows that (the helper returned it), but I think I'm just passing
the wrong one along.


>
> Alternatively, try entering "danlyke.livejournal.com".
>
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