How do we know whether a service URI is available (related question)

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Fri Aug 25 04:26:07 UTC 2006


Would you elaborate on the pros / cons and motivation?

btw: why the cross post?

On 24-Aug-06, at 9:14 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> Can I ask for a virtual show of hands (-1/0/+1) of people who think  
> that we should have some kind of very lightweight "ping" for OpenID  
> service endpoints in time for the OpenID 2.0 spec, preferably using  
> an approach that works for other kinds of services, too, or not?
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> I was actually thinking of an HTTP HEAD on the service endpoint,  
> looking for an HTTP error code (or TCP timeout) or an HTTP success  
> code. (or a redirect code, in which case the new service endpoint  
> should be pinged instead).
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> But regardless of how we'd specify that ping ... should we have  
> such a thing? Or not? Or "not now"?
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> Cheers,
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> Johannes.
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> Johannes Ernst
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