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The use of a URL in OpenID confused a hell of a lot of non-technical people. If WebFinger turns into "OpenID, but with an e-mail identifier," that might not be
by gfunk911 17y ago
The use of a URL in OpenID confused a hell of a lot of non-technical people. If WebFinger turns into "OpenID, but with an e-mail identifier," that might not be a bad thing.
- cracell 17y agoI'm a web developer and I still don't get OpenID. Whenever I try to use it I'm just ran though a bunch of authentication/handshake/who knows what pages. Only to have to re-login the next time I visit in the same awkward way that oftens breaks on me. WTF.
- blasdel 17y agoIt's a much bigger improvement than that! Besides its URL idiocy, OpenID has no way to provide information about the user. Any web app using it is still basically forced to implement its own accounts system. CAS suffers from the same bullshit -- it's only useful when backed by LDAP, and you write a second plugin for all your webapps to load just group membership directly from LDAP.