GSoC status update, week 3
Whew! After passing all the exams, got around to doing XRDS parsing. This turned out to be a bit complex, and now only basic XRDS support is done. What is done, however, should cover most cases. Now on to real work. I'm a bit behind the schedule already, and full Relying Party is due next week – maybe I'll need to adjust the milestones, but I still hope I can do it.
Work done since last report
- Minor fixes to HTML discovery, better discovery workflow
- Fixes for compatibility with Clozure CL. Clozure works really well on x86_64 Linux, and probably I'll stick to it as a default development platform (keeping testing with other implementations) – way lighter and faster than SBCL.
- Finished discovery of XRDS document location
- XRDS parsing
Problems
As always, things take more time than I expect. This time, I tripped over underspecified XRDS document schema in the Yadis protocol; I noticed missing parts during implementation, and had to refer to XRI Resolution specification and to examples on the Internet. What's more, OpenID 1.x support in XRDS is not specified at all, there are only some conventions and “widely used” <XRD:Type/> URIs. Seems to work on real world providers.
Plans for next half-week
- Association support