YADIS best practice?

[Peter Davis]

On 1/20/2006 2:37 PM, "Johannes Ernst" <jernst+lists.danga.com at netmesh.us>
wrote:

> I'm trying to decide whether there is, or should be, a "best
> practice" on how to declare two YADIS services that only differ in
> their version number.
> For example, most OpenID implementation today seem to support both
> V1.1 and V1.0. In YADIS, should this be declared as:
> 
> <Service>
>    <Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.0</Type>
>    <URI>http://openid.example.com/</URI>
> </Service>
> <Service>
>    <Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.1</Type>
>    <URI>http://openid.example.com/</URI>
> </Service>
> 
> or is this better practice:
> 
> <Service>
>    <Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.0</Type>
>    <Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.1</Type>
>    <URI>http://openid.example.com/</URI>
> </Service>
> 
> or doesn't it matter?

It matters to define the behaviour when encountering on or the other.  At
least for conformance ;-)

The issue to think about for the second example is the endpoints described
by <URI> MUST support both protocols versions, which in some deployments may
not be possible or practical.

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