Resolution Flowchart

After staring at the resolution flowchart wd04 long enough, I have a few comments and would like to hear from the TC:

1. It would be nice if application/xrds+xml and application/xrds-saml+xml were not special media types used to signal to the resolver to return the XRDS without further processing. Instead, the resolver API could provide the means for getting at the XRDS (e.g. with an [out] parameter to the function call) or provide a separate API for performing authority resolution alone.

2. In the authority resolution flowchart, [Request XRDS] -> [Error?] -- Yes --> should probably fail immediately if the returned error code is 404, which is an assertion by the server that the resource does not exist. One could argue that the server could be misconfigured, since 404 could also mean that the web server cannot find the end point CGI script / servlet / request handler.

Thoughts?

wil.

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