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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...

rpxnow vs dotnetopenid, What do you think ?

I read a couple of posts about this but i was really more confused about what shall i use or what would be better, or even am i missing some other solutions ? Please advice, Thanks ...

Passwords for applications using third-party authentication?

I have an ASP.NET MVC application into which I have just integrated the RPX third-party federated identity system. The integration is working ok, but I'm having some difficulty wrapping my head around what to do with it at the ASP.NET level. Because the identity is handled externally, I have no need for passwords in my app: I never rec...

Do I need a custom membership provider to integrate third-party authentication into ASP.NET?

I have an ASP.NET MVC application into which I have just integrated the RPX third-party federated identity system. The integration is working ok, but I'm having some difficulty wrapping my head around what to do with it at the ASP.NET level. I'm pretty new to ASP.NET (I'm learning it with MVC), and I've discovered a little bit about th...

how to logout after getting authenticated by single sign on provider?

I am trying to provide authentication facility through third party single sign on provider like rpxnow. After login on every refresh of page I am not able to retrieve the cookies set by the provider so that I can delete them when user desires to log out? Is there any other way to gracefully logout the user without trying to search for co...

RPXnow Facebook Connect - Use and Level of support?

I am using RPXnow.com authentication solution for a rails app and am now at the point of wanting to develop Facebook integration features using Facebook Connect and the client api. What I am unclear on from RPXnow docs is the level of integration their solution provides. When a user connects via rpx using their FB creds, are they now usi...

Rpxnow.com works on localhost, but not on the 'net...

Hi. I'm using OpenID for my site using the free plan with rpxnow.com. I am able to make the site work on localhost, but when I deploy, I get an "unexpected api error" exception. The root cause seems to be that the 'status' field is returning something that is not 'ok'. Does anybody have insights on this problem or a solution? Thanks, ...

Set a "global pre-request variable" in Django in Middleware

I'm trying to combine Google App Engine with RPX Now user authentication and a per-user limited access pattern. The per user access-limiting pattern relies upon GAE's global User.get_current_user(), like-so: from google.appengine.api import users class CurrentUserProperty(db.UserProperty): def checkCurrentUser(self, value): if v...

verifiedEmail AOL OpenID

I can't seem to fetch the verifiedEmail field when trying to login to AOLs OpenID on my site. Every other provider that I know of provides this property, but not AOL. I realize that AOL somehow uses an old OpenID version, although is it feasible to just assume that their e-mail ends in @aol.com? I'm using the RPXNow library with Python....

Unable to logoout of openID RPXnow

Hi I am using RPXnow for logging in my website. I am able to login through yahoo/google/ account. when I logout of my website I get logged out of my website & session is killed. However if click back to sign in again through rpx widget I am transferred to yahoo/ google which is already signed in.I do not have to reenter my user name,pas...

RPXNOW without refreshing

Is it possible to use rpx_now without refreshing the whole page after authenticated? I want to use the rpx_now in the widget like uservoice. User can click the widget everywhere in the website, see something in a popup iframe, user should do everything in the popup iframe including login. I found rpx_now was always refreshing the whole ...

RPX API Call auth_info is returning "missing parameter" error

I cannot get the RPX auth_info API call to work. It keeps returning the error: "Missing parameter: apiKey" I am using the C# RPX Helper Class provided on their Wiki:RPX Helper Class Below is my code in my Page_Load method. The RPX service works by sending a POST to a Url that I specify. My code gets the token from the post data show...

RPXNow user mapping

I am looking into solutions for providing multiple login methods to my site. I found rpxnow.com and they map user accounts from all the different networks. My question is how do they know that I am user1 on twitter and bigdude2 on facebook? I'm hoping it goes beyond email lookups. The end result I want is a unique user in my databas...

Authlogic RPX extended permissions

Hi, I am working on the Facebook Connect feature for a Ruby on Rails website. I noticed that FB doesn't provide the user's email unless you demand extended permissions. I'm using the authlogic_rpx gem. Does anyone know, if it's possible, and if how, to ask the user for granting access to his email address using the authlogic_rpx gem? ...

How to fetch facebook friends via RPXNow with the PLUS membership

Now We're capable of fetching the profile from facebook to sign in with it. Now we want to fetch all friends from facebook to check if they are already on our site, but we can only fetch the friends' id as a list. Is there any way to implement that? ...

Using OpenID as the only authentication method

I have read the other questions and they mostly talk about the security of doing so. That's not entirely my concern, mostly because the website is question is a browser-based game. However, the larger issue is the user - not every user is literate enough to understand OpenID. Sure RPX makes this pretty easy, which is what I'll use, but w...

RPXNow competitors?

We are building a new website and are considering RPXnow as our main login system. But before we take the plunge, do they have any competitors? That is, services that allow for a unified way to use all the OpenID, Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc ... Has anyone used RPXnow? Are you satisfied with it? ...

Getting RPXNow and Facebook Open Graph to Play Nicely

A requirement to use the RPXNow is to set your Facebook application's connect url to http://mydomain.rpxnow.com. I was just trying to implement Facebook's Open Graph and I see that it tells you to set the Base Domain to the domain that will contain the app_id. However, Facebook does not allow these two domains to look different. When I...

After I get the user profile from RPX how do I set the user as authenticated ?

I am using RPX for authentication. Now I get the user profile with identifier. What to do next to set authentication cookie and other things? Also the logout feature. in ASP.net 3.5 and C#. ...

Trouble with authlogic_rpx

Hi, I'm trying to run http://github.com/tardate/rails-authlogic-rpx-sample (only rails version was changed) but get error message http://gist.github.com/385696, when RPX returns information after successful authentication via Google Account. What is wrong here? And how I can fix it? The code was successfully tested with rails 2.3.3 by i...