User @ domain.tld as ID (Once again)

Thu Nov 3 10:50:32 PST 2005

Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:03:57 -0500, Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
>   
>> It would also be cool if sites that gave out openid's with usernames in 
>> the url would list their regex pattern in the meta of their site. That 
>> way, if my consumer can't find a rule for 'livejournal.com' in it's 
>> list, then it could hit http://www.livejournal.com/ to look for a 
>> pattern there, or else fail.
>>     
>
> That would be OK but sounds pretty complicated. Why not just have
> "/openid/username" be the URL to access in every case? You need a
> connection point somewhere, having another magic <head> tag pointing to a
> regex doesn't seem any better than having a magic URL.
>
> thanks -mike
>   
The reason for using this method is because livejournal (nor any other 
domain) currently uses the format /openid/{username} for their profile 
pages, and they shouldn't have to change that. Using my method, the site 
is free to use whatever url-space they want for their profiles, and the 
client will try to match that form before sending off the identity.

A few example urls:
Livejournal - http://www.livejournal.com/users/{username}/
Yahoo - http://profiles.yahoo.com/{username}
Videntity - http://{username}.videntity.org/
Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/{username}
Del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/{username}
Technorati - http://www.technorati.com/profile/{username}

All of these sites have a different pattern to their URL's, they should 
have no need to standardize on a url pattern.

Daniel E. Renfer (http://kronkltd.net/)