From Yadis

5 Examples

(These two examples were specified following Yadis Specification 0.5. They are still to be revised to conform to Yadis Specification 1.0. --jm)

5.1 Log on at an OpenID site (non-delegated case)

1. Action: User enters URL of Relying Party into browser; browser requests page from Relying Party.
   Response: Relying Party's page is displayed in browser.
2. Action: User enters their Yadis ID (which in this case is an OpenID URL), into the login field; clicks LogOn.
   Response: Control gets handed to the Relying Party.
3. Action: Relying Party performs a Yadis request on the Yadis URL.
   Response: HTML page is returned, which contains identity.server field.
4. Action: Relying Party performs a Yadis request on the URL in the identity.server field.
   Response: A Yadis document of MIME type application/xrds+xml is returned, which lists http://openid.net/ as one of the supported service types.
5. Action: Relying Party interacts with the provided URL (which now has been identified as an OpenID URL) using the OpenID protocol.
   Response: The browser session has been authenticated; the Relying Party sends the logged-on page to the browser; control returns to the user.

5.2 Log on at a LID site (non-delegated case)

1. Action: User enters URL of Relying Party into browser; browser requests page from Relying Party.
   Response: Relying Party's page is displayed in browser.
2. Action: User enters their Yadis ID (which in this case is a LID URL) into the ID field; clicks LogOn.
   Response: Control gets handed to the Relying Party.
3. Action: Relying Party performs a Yadis request on the Yadis URL.
   Response: A Yadis document of type application/xrds+xml is returned, which lists http://lid.netmesh.org/ as one of the supported service types.
4. Action: Relying Party interacts with the provided URL (which now has been identified as a LID URL) using the LID protocol.
   Response: The browser session has been authenticated; the Relying Party sends the logged-on page to the browser; control returns to the user.