openid

Why would you want to use OpenID?

Dup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/410085/what-reasons-are-there-not-to-use-openid Why add OpenID to your site when no one is using it. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/07/1958202&from=rss ...

OpenID authentication goes into strange error loop (Ruby on Rails, ruby-openid, open_id_authentication)

I've been using OpenID for my site for a while, and everything has been working fine. However, recently I've been seeing some strange errors in the error logs. Apparently, everything works fine for the user, and they're able to log in. However, in the background, the OpenID library seems to go into a loop that causes a bunch of errors...

How do you delegate your OpenId to Google Apps

Hi, I use Google Apps for my domain email, and I was wondering if I could use that account for OpenID instead of the regular Gmail account. I know I can delegate Openid to some other URL using this: <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" /> <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://samruby.myopenid.com/" /> ...

Simple Facebook Connect Demo in ASP.NET

Does anyone have a simple and successful demo implementation of facebook connect in an asp.net application. I am developing an asp.net web application and want facebook connect to be the primary method for logging in. ...

Alternatives to ID Selector?

Anybody knows a good alternative to ID Selector since it's now RPX and at least for me, won't be good? thanks ...

Logging in to an OpenID site from a .net app

I have been thinking of maybe writing a little tool that logs into SO and updates my profile info with some topical/current info on a regular basis (eg. my latest blog post or questions I need help on, etc...) To get this to work I will need to somehow log on to SO from a console app. Is there a .Net library that streamlines logging o...

OpenID in WinForm?

Does anybody know of the best (or any) tutorial for OpenID either with or without RPX in a WinForm (.net 2.0 and C#)? ...

How to implement OpenID in Java

How would I go about supporting OpenID authentication in an Java web application? ...

OpenID Delegation

I have tried all the possible options to use openID delegation on my site, but none of the methods are working for me. I'm having the "link rel" tags in the head section of the HTML file. I'm having the xrds location meta tags in the head section of the HTML file. I'm setting HTTP Headers for X-XRDS-Location and X-YADIS-Location. I've...

How do you enable customers use their openid on your website, just like stackoverflow?

I want customers to use their openId on my site. I googled for this but didn't find any good tutorial. I use PHP and MySQL. There is one at Plaxo. But it says we should download something from JanRain.com. I saw the openId module of Drupal. It doesn't want anything to be downloaded. Can anyone tell me what to do exactly? ...

How do you enable customers to login to your site using their google account?

I just saw http://uservoice.com/login It uses google accounts, myspace, yahoo, openid and all to sign in customers into its site? Can I do that? I mean, customers need not register to my site. They can just sign in with their accounts on the above sites. If you've a solution, I'd prefer a PHP and MySQL based one. ...

Login/Register in Ruby on Rails?

Im starting to learn RoR and i want to make my personal blog in this language. I usually code a couple of prototypes on top of whatever im doing in my blog. So i would like people to be able to log in, and register with their openID. So i was about to jump to the coding place when i realized the concept of gems and all that stuff is giv...

Store user id in Principal or Identity? ASP.Net/OpenID.

I have an ASP.Net MVC web application using forms authentication. I am using OpenID for authentication. At the moment the moment I'm storing the openID url inside the Name of the standard GenericIdentity. I would also like to have easy access to the database id for the user. I can make a custom provider or identity by overriding the Ap...

Best OpenId API for ASP.NET MVC application

I am developing an ASP.NET MVC application and I want to use OpenId. What is the best option? DotNetOpenId RPX Other??? Does anyone know what StackOverflow uses? Is the Login UI custom-developed, or provided by an API/service? ...

OpenID delegation seems not to work with OpenID Authentication plugin for Rails

I've just installed the OpenID Authentication plugin because I'd like to use it for my projects, but as I tried to login using my blog url I got the first error message: "Sorry, the OpenID server couldn't be found" Does the plugin support delegation? If yes, what is wrong with my blog? (I use wp-openid with XRDS-Simple) Thanks! ...

OpenID authentication and API access

OpenID authentication is inherently browser based. If I wanted to allow an OpenID user to authenticate against an API for use in alternative clients, is there an accepted best practice for that? So if a user tried to log in with their OpenID into an iPhone app, for instance, how would that work? The only thing I can think of generatin...

OpenID vs custom user login for a website used by non-tech people

Does anyone have experience with implementing OpenID on a non technical website? If you do, how were your non tech users reacting to the concept of OpenID and creation of the account on a different website? I really like the idea of a single sign-on, but I am afraid that non-tech people who are used to create an account on every websit...

Get FriendlyIdentifierForDisplay from ClaimedIdentifier in dotNetOpenId

If I have the ClaimedIdentifier is the a way to get the FriendlyIdentifierForDisplay using the dotNetOpenId? Thanks ...

Limited Use OpenID

Hello All, I'm looking to implement OpenID as a provider for a group of partner sites. The thing is this site is for kids (younger than 13) so I have business restrictions that need to be dealt with - mainly the account can't be used on any non-partner sites (we work with every approved partner to ensure they meet industry privacy/secu...

Extracting a username from an OpenID identity

I am using OpenID authentication in conjunction with traditional register/signin authentication on a site of mine. When someone signs in for the first time using OpenID, I would like to be able to extract a username for use on the site. This is easy for some openid identifiers - eg: http://username.myopenid.com/ http://username.livejo...