Trailing URL for OpenID username required

[trevor@…]

When adding an OpenID user to a project via trac-admin the fully-qualified URL with the trailing slash must be used. I would be nice if more options were provided -

Currently required:

http://chunky_bacon.myopenid.net/

Suggested additional optional formats:

With http and without trailing slash

http://chunky_bacon.myopenid.net

Without http and without trailing slash

chunky_bacon.myopenid.net

Also note this comment by DHH at ​http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000606.html#comments

"I think I'm backed out of the idea of using http:// anyway because it means that the user name can't be reused for other types of authentication, such as http authentication on feeds or API."

[anonymous]

The reason that the full URL is required is because it needs to be compared to the normalized version of the OpenID authentication as per the OpenID specification. Therefore, the normalized URL must be stored and used for comparison. Normalization for URLs with no paths means ​http:// and trailing slash, minimally.

[cygnus]

DHH should stop calling it a username; that partially solves the ​http:// problem. At any rate, the scheme is vital; ​https:// and ​http:// URLs aren't equivalent, so the scheme needs to be preserved.

[Dalius]

I agree here with cygnus. You can't make assumptions here that http and https identifies same user (while it might be true for 99% cases). Trailing slash is not problem as well. At least with AuthOpenIdPlugin trailing slash is always added if it is domain level openid login (e.g. ​http://blog.sandbox.lt). If OpenID URL contains path elements trailing slash can't be eliminated because it can mean different things with slash and without it.