Re: [dix] Federated Digest Auth

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

>>The username passed is the persona-url
>>Authorization: Digest username="dix:/sxip.com/employees/dick",
>>    
>>
>
>Sure we could do that.
>
>But why are folk so intent on using a URL when it is guaranteed to
>result in a shitty user experience?
>  
>
how is this "gmail.com/robyates" any different to this 
"robyates@gmail.com"?  is the user experience that different? sure sites 
could give out hard to remember "shitty" persona-urls but will they 
catch on?  There are many technical advantages to having URLs as 
identifiers and if the user experience doesn't suffer then why not?

Rob

p.s. As blogging and personal web sites become more the norm won't users 
actually find it a very natural experience to be entering "their" URL as 
"their" identifier.

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