Testing this stuff for myself: How?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:

> 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.

Bug fixed.  I did the right thing for all URL redirects /except/
LiveJournal because I was doing some quick-n-dirty caching, wrong.  They
all work now.

- Brad