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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Awesome, I've also been
thinking a lot about something like this. What Brad and I had discussed
was being able to do this via Basic and Digest HTTP Auth. Thus a client
that supports these modes already, browser, feed reader, svn, etc wouldn't have
to change; rather only changes would be required on the server side. Then
for many of these apps, writing mod_auth_openid for Apache would handle the code
needed on the server.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would look very much like what you wrote
up, though throw the identifier in the username and the signature into the
password field. Then use check_authentication to verify it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Have you thought at all about that
approach?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>--David</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> yadis-bounces@lists.danga.com on behalf of
Martin Atkins<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sun 8/6/2006 7:27 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
yadis@lists.danga.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> OpenID Auth for agents and
"bots"<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>I've posted on the OpenID Wiki a simple proposal for doing
OpenID auth<BR>using normal HTTP authentication. This is intended as a solution
for<BR>non-human agents and bots to authenticate themselves more
easily.<BR><BR> <<A
href="http://www.lifewiki.net/openid/OpenIDHTTPAuth">http://www.lifewiki.net/openid/OpenIDHTTPAuth</A>><BR><BR>Note
that this is not meant to address authentication of human users
in<BR>non-browser apps, though I have included this as a possible extension
in<BR>the notes at the end of the page.<BR><BR>Please let me know what you
think.<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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