[jdev] JID -> OpenID mapping?
Tomasz Sterna
tomek at xiaoka.com
Wed Oct 15 08:57:55 CDT 2008
Dnia 2008-10-15, śro o godzinie 14:35 +0100, Dave Cridland pisze:
> > Thus I am looking for a way to map jid at example.com to
> > http://open.id/someone without the XMPP protocol involvement.
>
> What if the XSF ran a HTTP-based service, which'd let Open ID web
> services take "xmpp:jid at example.com", map it to
> "http://openid.jabber.org/jid@example.com", which'd reolve into a
> redirect to the user's actual OpenID service, as discovered by PEP or
> some such?
Good idea. The only weak point I see is centralisation.
Maybe we could create a TXT DNS record in the XMPP server domain
pointing to a service doing the translation?
(DNS resolution is not really an overhead for HTTP server.)
Ex.:
server.org IN TXT "openid http://openid.server.org/?jid="
which concatenated with JID gives
http://openid.server.org/?jid=user@server.org that serves/redirects to
OpenID server.
Or maybe we could use SRV record type somehow?
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