Comments on: Normalization or What Is Your OpenID? http://notsorelevant.com/2008-04-13/normalization-or-what-is-your-openid/ no expert in technology Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:08:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Carsten Pötter http://notsorelevant.com/2008-04-13/normalization-or-what-is-your-openid/#comment-6973 Carsten Pötter Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.notsorelevant.com/2008-04-13/normalization-or-what-is-your-openid/#comment-6973 Yep, that is tricky. I hope it will not confuse people too much. Yep, that is tricky. I hope it will not confuse people too much.

]]> By: Boris Erdmann http://notsorelevant.com/2008-04-13/normalization-or-what-is-your-openid/#comment-6971 Boris Erdmann Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:18:32 +0000 http://www.notsorelevant.com/2008-04-13/normalization-or-what-is-your-openid/#comment-6971 Yepp. And it gets even more confusing: while yourid.com and http://yourid.com are considered to be equal to http://yourid.com/ (mind the trailing slash) the same is not true, when your openid contains a non-empty path component: yourid.com/you and yourid.com/you/ are *not* considered the same. See http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#normalization_example (just quoting RFC3986, section 6) Boris Yepp. And it gets even more confusing:

while yourid.com and http://yourid.com are considered to be equal to http://yourid.com/ (mind the trailing slash) the same is not true, when your openid contains a non-empty path component: yourid.com/you and yourid.com/you/ are *not* considered the same. See http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#normalization_example (just quoting RFC3986, section 6)

Boris

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