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<font size=3>[I regret i sent this message without adding the reference
you will find below.]<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">... Yadis'
indirection-through-HTML trick ...</blockquote><br>
For list readers who may not have been around last year:<br><br>
This indirection-through-HTML trick is in the Yadis Specification to
enable users who are not able to control their web server, so as to
induce it to return either the XRDS document or the X-XRDS-Location HTTP
response-header. <br><br>
Service providers (and users with adequate control of their web server)
can respond to the HTTP Accept request-header or send an X-XRDS-Location
HTTP response-header.<br><br>
...............<br><br>
There is an excellent discussion of the reason for having tricks like
this at:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/17/dive.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/17/dive.html</a><br><br>
That's about authentication, but the second and third paragraphs are
about Bob, one of many thousands and soon to be millions who we need to
accomodate.<br><br>
Our motto: If it doesn't work for Bob, it doesn't work for us.<br><br>
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