Open id get username after successful authentication

Question

I am using openid using openid4java. My return url is a servlet

After authentication when the return url is invoked by the openid provider after successfully authentication , i want the USERNAME from the open id url like https://me.yahoo.com/USERNAME

the above url i am recieving from parameter openid.identity i cannot get username directly since user is entering user name on the openid provider site.

Please give any suggestion Regards, Zeeshan

Answer 1

I'm not absolutely sure this is what you're asking, but if you want Yahoo to pass you a nickname or an email address for the user, you can add the Attribute Exchange extension to your OpenID request.

• Y!'s blog post announcing AX support
• a later post with an updated list of supported attributes