openid

How to validate open id in Shared hosting?

I have a site hosted on a shared hosting, I am building a forum and want users to register through OpenId. The problem is I am not able to connect to OpenId providers like Google and Yahoo, because my server doesnt connect to them! Is there a way to use client side OpenId validation using ajax (XmlHttp) or anything like that? ...

Integrating Open ID and also leveraging Microsoft HealthVault

I've seen serveral articles/questions regarding Open ID integration but I'm curious if I integrate this into my site and then try to integrate with Microsoft HealthVault which accepts live id or open id, how smooth that is or if there is a potential of multiple login actions (obviously undesired). Ideally I would love to do something li...

DotNetOpenAuth: Webforms, Getting Started

I am trying to figure out how to get DotNetOpenAuth(http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/) working in my webforms app I don't understand where to begin. I have an OpenIDSelector on my Login.aspx that lets you choose google or Yahoo. You can choose one, then a popup comes up, and lets you login. Once you login the program hangs because it i...

Shared Authentication between SAAS/Cloud web application and Desktop application

A simple scenario: Let's say we have a Web Application up in the cloud that let users sign up using OpenID. (I'm open to use Windows Live ID as alternative) They can log in and update some meta data, for example what their favorite color is. If I now want to get this information from a desktop client, how do I do that? I will probably ...

How to make registration in web applications userfriendly?

Hi everyone, I'm designing a new web application and I'm aware that the process of registration (creating a profile) is really frustrating for the users (also to me) - everywhere we go, people should register. Some may even stop using your site, if you force them to register. The problem is that, I really need my users to be registered ...

OpenID.GetResponse() NullReferenceException with Yahoo

I keep getting a NullReferenceException when I try to use Yahoo. Google works fine. Yahoo also has an extra page that asks if I want to continue because my site is not trusted. Don't know if that's what it doesn't work or not. This kicks it off when you click the Google or Yahoo Button, url is http://yahoo.com or https://www.googl...

Attribute Exchange Problem

I have used the sample code given in this site? but it not works means that when I used myOpenID and localhost for attribute exchange then it gives an array like this Auth_OpenID_AX_FetchResponse Object ( [mode] => fetch_response [ns_alias] => ax [ns_uri] => http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0 [data] => Array ( ) [update_url] => ) Can anyone...

Python OpenID error: No matching endpoint found after discovering [uri]

Hello, I'm getting a "No matching endpoint found after discovering [openid identifier]" error when I invoke complete() method of the consumer. The funny thing is that out of the four OpenID providers I have tested, this behavior is observed only with LiveJournal. What steps can you suggest to investigate and fix the problem? store = F...

Rails with Authlogic, how to remove a default validation?

Hi there, I am building an Rails App with Authlogic. But I don't want to force the user to fill in the e-mail, or even username! Therefore, I believe i want a methods to skip those validations.. But I don't just want to bypass all other validations. Is there a method for that in Authlogic, or do I need to hack in the gem? The reason is...

How to incorporate Spring security using open id into a GWT project

Well its simple, Basically I want to follow GWT's "One Page" paradigm and yet integrate Spring security into the application. What i understand that if the cookie is not found in the system, spring will redirect user to a Open id referrer page asking for login else it would simply send my server the user's open url id. This is what i tr...

How to authenticate a user using open Id after logging in the system

I am using Spring Security in our application My requirement intially was to allow a user to login to our application using open id. I was able to do so referring to online tutorials on using open id in Spring sercurity. eg: ... <http auto-config="false"> ... <openid-login authentication-failure-url="/FailurePage.jsp" ...

How to download source and implement Google OpenID+OAuth Hybrid protocol?

I want to build a website that allows user sign in with Openid, especially Google account. I wanna use Google Federated Login with Hybrid protocol. I found that link: http://code.google.com/intl/vi-VN/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html But I didnt find any link to download the source code. Anybody can help me? Thank you so much. P/S: I only ...

Name popular sites that allow open id login

No I am not taking about Providers here. I am asking names of sites that allow you to login using your open id. Eg: stack overflow.com I tried googling but I only received list of providers like wordpress,facebook,etc... eg: slashdot.com -- Does not create an account, but allows to login using an open id attached to existing account...

OpenID register on login (authlogic_openid)

What is the proper way to register users automatically when they log in with openid? I am using authlogic with an authlogic-oid gem (and an older version of openid_authentication). The stuff I read online so far seems to be obsolete. Does anyone know the proper way to do it with the new gem? What I do now is: options = params[:user_s...

What OpenId plugin/gem shall I use for my Rails application?

There are so many plugins/gems but must of them have outdated documentation or no documentation at all. From what I have seen there are the Rails openid, Eastmedia openid, Authlogic openid, rails kit openid plugins and from a gem search we have rails_openid, pelle-ruby-openid, rack-openid, openid_auth, openid_fu_generator, openid_login...

Login problems with Yahoo

When I tried to login in using yahoo account, I am getting an error message saying: Unable to log in with your OpenID provider: Message signature was incorrect. Please help ...

Session management and linking user accounts with OpenID, in ASP.NET

I am currently playing with DotNetOpenAuth to make an ASP.NET (C#) website use OpenID instead of the normal login-password routine for user and session handling. Up till now, I have added the DotNetOpenAuth.dll into my project and tried a test login page with the following: <rp:OpenIdLogin ID="OpenIdLogin1" runat="server" /> When I r...

OpenID PHP Library Janrain, and setting the Auth_OpenID_RAND_SOURCE to null

I was looking into using OpenID for an upcoming project I was going to be working on. After reading through some tutorials on Janrain's PHP implementation of OpenID and looking through the source code I uploaded it to my server and tested out the example script included with my Google ID and I was getting some errors about the Auth_OpenI...

ASP.NET Forms Auth: authenticate programmatically

Hi, I was hacking on a website, and found that the original authentication model is Forms Authentication to login this website's members... and I need to integrate another service (say OpenID, Google Connect, Facebook Connect... etc.). How can I programmatically authenticate an external user on my website, knowing that he has been authe...

How do I validate that my the openid.op_endpoint when a request is completed.

I have an Open ID based authentication system on my site. Occasionally users will have an account registered under [email protected] and they will attempt to login using the google open id provider https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id, in this case I would like to automatically associate the account and log them in. When the process is ...