yadis Digest, Vol 18, Issue 2

[Dmitry Shechtman]

> The proposed solutions of SMTP hacking or XML discovery all seem
> rather heavyweight. An old-fashioned 301 redirect from
> http://example.com/openid/email_handle to whatever appropriate URI
> could do the trick, no?

Both SMTP and Yadis are already there. Your proposed method introduces a new
standard for constructing URLs, which IMHO is highly undesirable. For
instance, a site I am currently working on uses /openid as its OpenID signin
URL...


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian