php openid: Why does the library accept some usernames and others cause errors?

Question

Hi,

been playing with http://openidenabled.com/php-openid/trunk/examples/consumer and tried the following:

flim.blogspot.com

flimcc.blogspot.com

The first works, the second doesn't. I don't really understand why that is?

Cheers flim

Answer 1

Isn't this because the first URL resolves to a blog, and the second one doesn't? The technical reason that this fails as "not a valid OpenID" is because the URL that returns the blog contains this line in the source:

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />

The other doesn't.