openid

Django & google openid authentication (openid.ax) with socialauth

Hello I am trying to use django-socialauth (http://github.com/uswaretech/Django-Socialauth) for authenticating users for my django project. This is firs time working with openid and i've had to figure out how exactly this open id works. I have more or less understood it, by now, but there are few things that elude me. The authentica...

How does one retrieve the email address of a user with GData?

I'm trying to use GData to retrieve the email address, real name, and profile URL of the user that just authorized my site using Google OAuth. We know how to request it using Google's OpenID flow, but the OpenID flow has the severe limitation that we have to ask for a Google Apps user's domain before we know where to send them to log in...

Using Active Directory and Open ID to authenticate a Play Framework based application.

I have an application I am building using the Play Framework. I would like this application to authenticate users using Open ID and Active Directory. Is this possible? Please excuse my ignorance as I am not a J2EE expert but come from a deep knowledge of the .Net framework and some experience writing Java applications. Any guidance would...

Troubles with my open id provider. How to debug ?

I have my own openid provider on my website, with phpmyid. It worked flawlessly until now, but apparently now it's not working anymore. I am unable to login anywhere I tried. How can I debug what's going on, to understand where's the problem ? I can add more details if required, but if I can figure it out by myself without having to pas...

Ruby open_id_authentication with Google OpenID

I am in my first steps of implementing OpenID in my Rails app. open_id_authentication appeared to be a fairly easy-to-use plugin, which is why I decided to use it. Logging in with my Google account seems to work perfectly, however I do not get the sreg/AX fields that I require. My code is currently as follows: class SessionsController ...

Authenticating stackoveflow programatically - OpenID

I would like to add up and down voting to my iPhone appilcation - MyStacks, for this I need the to be able to authenticate the user with SO. I'm look at adapting the Twitter-OAuth-iPhone library. However The problem I have is obtaining the consumer and secret key. to use OAuth, do I need to obtain a different key for each provider? In...

javascript string-to-octet-string conversion

Hi all, I'm building an openid signature generator in javascript, and I have no experience working w/ octet strings, but step 3 of the signature gen procedure in the openid 2.0 spec states "Convert the list of key/value pairs to be signed to an octet string by encoding with Key-Value Form Encoding". The string I've come up w/ (via Cr...

Can I upload a video to Youtube using OpenId + OAuth in behalf of a user which does not have a youtube account but gmail ?

I need to develop a web site where I upload videos using the youtube API. I cannot do it to my youtube account (see youtube terms for an explantion on that) so it need to be done in the user behalf. It would be great to avoid the user having to register to youtube. If I use OpenID + OAuth within the youtube API, can a gmail account or o...

c# samples of youtube API (or gdata API) using OpenID and OAuth

Are there any c# code samples of youtube API (or gdata API) using OpenID and OAuth ? Or maybe a post / article with code examples Code samples of using dotnetoauth with the youtube API would be great too ...

tips for a open id authentication wrapper for rails

i'm looking for a rails plugin for open id authentication. I'm using restful-authentication Can you tip me any plugin? Do you know any tutorials for using these plugins? thanks ...

DotNetOpenAuth: Message signature was incorrect

I'm getting a "Message signature was incorrect" exception when trying to authenticate with MyOpenID and Yahoo. I'm using pretty much the ASP.NET MVC sample code that came with DotNetOpenAuth 3.4.2 public ActionResult Authenticate(string openid) { var openIdRelyingParty = new OpenIdRelyingParty(); var authenticationResponse = op...

How do you get AOL's OpenID site verification to work?

I have an OpenID relying party setup and using XRDS. It passes the "RP has discoverable return_to" interop test over at http://test-id.org/RP/DiscoverableReturnTo.aspx. Yahoo no longer complains with the message "Warning: This website has not confirmed its identity with Yahoo! and might be fraudulent." as outlined in Andrew Arnott's exc...

Django OpenID django-openid-auth Login Error.

I get the following error when attempting to use django-openid-auth OpenID discovery error: No usable OpenID services found for *******@gmail.com I have followed the instructions that come with it, though it seems there is something I am missing. the installation is on my localhost. ...

No OpenID endpoint found

I am trying to use the DotNetOpenId library to add OpenID support on a test website. For some reason it keeps giving me the following error when running on FireFix. Keep in mind that I am using localhost as I am testing it on my local machine. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using Sy...

Is it possible to transmit an openid authentication from an application to another ?

I'd like to know if this is technically possible, if yes how ? ...

Need Help with .NET OpenId HttpHandler

I'm trying to use a single HTTPHandler to authenticate a user's open id and receive a claimresponse. The initial authentication works, but the claimresponse does not. The error I receive is "This webpage has a redirect loop." What am I doing wrong? public class OpenIdLogin : IHttpHandler { private HttpContext _context = null; p...

OpenID token from Google (using www)?

I've come across the following situation when using OpenID and Google as the authenticator. If you type siteName.com it takes you to http://sitename.com Which returns a different token than if I were to login to www.siteName.com, which would take me to http://www.siteName.com As a result, Google returns a different authentication toke...

Login via Google Apps

How can I authenticate my users via our their Google Apps account. I also need access to their email. I've read Oauth is needed but I have no idea if that is correct. I'm using PHP. ...

OpenID Authentication 2.0 in Joomla 1.0.x

Is there any easy way to bring OpenID authentication into a Joomla 1.0.x website? I am particularly interested in Google authentication (so I'll want OAuth &/or OpenID Attribute Exchange as well later), but for now just authentication will work. I know Joomla 1.5.x supports OpenID natively but I have to stick with 1.0.x for now. Any idea...

Delegate OpenID to Google (NOT Google Apps)

OK, I searched this question on SO but no good answer. After spent some time I figured out how to do it. I'm going to answer this myself as a way to share it. ...