so it turns out this works. I can type in “aaron... • Aaron Parecki

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Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Nov 19
I'm intrigued by the IndieAuth thing where you can input a domain but your final identifier is a page specific to you on that domain - seems like it could help avoid users having to register their own domain or remember their full URL

so it turns out this works. I can type in “aaron@parecki.com” in an indieauth prompt and it works. because that is a URL.

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  I’ll admit it’s a bit of a “hack”. The trick is “aaron@parecki.com” is a URL because if you assume the http scheme then you get http://aaron@parecki.com which is a username but no password with HTTP basic auth. The server can switch what it returns based on that username.
  
  Thu, Nov 19, 2020 4:20am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Simon Willison twitter.com/simonw
  
  I thought that was valid with RelMeAuth but not IndieAuth - how can I get that working as an IndieAuth client?
  
  Thu, Nov 19, 2020 4:17am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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