openid

Do i need one or two Unique Key Index's for this table?

Hi folks i'm trying to create a Users table that only has OpenId registrations, exactly like StackOverflow. I'm storing in the table OpenId Identifier (their login name) Alias (which is the display name to show to the public) Some other openId stuff So .. I want make sure that there is only ONE user in the system that has the open ...

Saving OpenId fields to a database - what are their types/lengths?

Hi folks, I'm wanting to save some OpenId fields to a database table, such as OpenId identifier Full Name Alias Email etc.. is there a place that summerizes the datatypes and lengths for all the common schema fields? I know there are custom ones (per provider) .. but what about the common ones? Eg. email -> nvarchar(250) .. or some...

Best articles/documentation about OpenID?

What is the recommended read if someone like to be first introduced to OpenID and later go more deeply into details to be prepared for implementation of OpenID based single sign-on? Pointers to some introduction articles for start, then to more thorough documentation and advices are welcome. ...

Inhouse registration vs. OpenID vs. Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect vs. (etc)

I'm trying to decide how to allow users to register for my website... there's openID, clickpass, facebook connect, google friend connect, etc, or the good old fashioned in-house "enter a username, email, password, etc." Looking briefly at How to set-up OpenID it seems like a lot of work to get openID working. Does anyone have experienc...

OpenID: Acceptance in non geek community for registration

If we are going to develop a community website for non geeks, is it ok if we implement openid registration. How much openid is acceptable in non geek community. Anybody having any idea about this. ...

What is the difference between Microsoft Passport and OpenID?

OpenId is open source and can be implemented by anyone. In both cases my credentials are held on a third party server. The only advantage I can think of for using Microsoft Passport is the reliability of Microsoft. ...

How does OpenID authentication work?

I am a little curious to know about how OpenID authentication works. Is there any difference between OpenID authentication and the authentication which sites use exclusively for themselves? ...

OpenID Java

Is there an openID implementation in Java? I would like to use this in a tomcat application. ...

OpenID on Community Server

Okay, I've asked on the Community Server Forums and was totally ignored. So I'll ask here. The OpenID provider (presumably janrain) for CommunityServer does not work with an SSL OpenID endpoint. I really don't know of a non SSL OpenID endpoint and even if I did...I'm not sure if I'd want to use it. I have a community server installation...

How do I fake OpenID login in RSpec user story/Cucumber when using open_id_authentication plugin

I'm trying to write a Cucumber scenario that requires me to have a logged in user - that would normally be quite simple but I'm only using OpenID authentication (curtosy of the authentication plugin). However after digging through the open_id_authentication plugins guts I'm not sure how I could achieve this within Cucumber. ...

Web Service Authentication using OpenID

I'm going to be developing a REST-ful Web Service for a new public website. The idea behind the web service is to have 3rd parties develop fully functional UIs for the business logic. For security reasons, I'd like to avoid users having to give their passwords for our service to the 3rd party applications. (Perhaps this shouldn't be a b...

Is there a .NET implementation of an XRI resolver?

In order to avoid delegating XRI resolution to an XRI resolver proxy like xri.net, is there an open source .NET implementation of an XRI resolver? There is an xri4j library that might be ported to .NET, and in fact I started on that effort, but it looked like there was a lot of code in there that could be ripped out since .NET's librari...

PHP library for openID

Which is the best PHP library for openID integration? ...

Google Friend Connect - Logged in user profile info

I am trying to implement Google Friend Connect. Is it possible to obtain the email address of the logged in user? If so how? ...

Running an OpenID organization

I wrote an application recently, which relies on OpenID for authentication. A lot of web applications these days are moving to OpenID, insofar that they already have userid/password authentication scheme, and OpenID is just an add-on. Since my application is a new one, I decided that it makes no sense to program separate authentication m...

How can I convert existing users into a OpenID

Would this be a smart thing to do? I don't want to alienate my users, but having multiple ways to sign in to the site kind of defeats the purpose of having an OpenID implementation. This isn't a brand new site and has about 3k users which are somewhat diehards (we have a great community), but not all of them are and I don't want to los...

Rails friendly url routing with open id

I would like to use create a rails route for a user's open id. The url would look something like http://mysite.com/identity/:html_encoded_openid or http://mysite.com/identity/:html_encoded_openid.xml This would be so that the site could be queried for an open id and either view info for that identity or receive an xml document contai...

What reasons are there NOT to use OpenID?

You see a fair bit (in the Geek community anyway) about OpenID. It seems like a good idea. I'm developing a website that will be targeted at a somewhat less geeky audience (but not quite Mom and Pops either) so I have to wonder if OpenID is going to be "too hard" for some audiences. What do you think? That aside, are there any other ...

Why doesn't StackOverflow.com let me login with an OpenID delegate with a defined XRDS location?

My personal site defines my OpenID delegate in the HEAD like so: <meta content="http://claimid.com/nicksergeant/xrds" http-equiv="x-xrds-location" /> <link rel="openid.server" href="http://openid.claimid.com/server" /> <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.claimid.com/nicksergeant" /> The XRDS location definition is required...

What is a good openid selector control?

Now that idselector has been upgraded to RPXNow and you can't "just use" the selector code, what is a good replacement? I want to implement OpenId on a new website that I am using, but the users are going to be just dumb when it comes to logging in unless I provide an easy way for them to. As a reference, I will be using .Net Open Id f...