[jdev] JID -> OpenID mapping?
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at stpeter.im
Wed Oct 15 10:36:39 CDT 2008
Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Tomasz Sterna wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Let's see what the OpenID folks are thinking for email addresses -- I'm
> sure the same basic ideas would apply to JabberIDs.
See for instance this thread:
http://openid.net/pipermail/specs/2008-January/002104.html
And here:
http://www.sappenin.com/openid/ext/oet/openid-email-transform-extension-1_0.html
Peter
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