redirects on openid identities

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Thu Jul 14 00:08:51 PDT 2005


Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote:
> 
> The issue this raises is an ambiguity to the consumer - is the _real_ id
> the (valid) one the user entered, or is it the result of the redirects?
> 

It's the result of all redirects. If the spec doesn't say this then it
should, as it's pretty fundamental.

The canonical form slash addition only applies for a completely empty path:
http://domain.com
becomes
http://domain.com/

...because a HTTP URL with no path component is invalid, so you can't
actually request the former in order to get redirected to the latter.

Other than that (and adding http://, of course) the rest of the
canonicalisation is handled by HTTP redirects.



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