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A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
- spiralhead 19y agocurious--is anybody actually using OpenID or is it like one of those things everyone promotes publicly on principle (like feeding hungry kids in 3rd world countries) but ignores privately?
- benhoyt 19y agoI'd heard of it before, but I really discovered it when we were implementing it for microPledge. Anyway, I signed up with MyOpenID -- and yeah, I'll use it for sign-ups from now on (if the website in question supports it).
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- inklesspen 19y agoLivejournal is. Ficlets.com is. Basecamp is. So are many smaller sites. https://www.myopenid.com/directory https://www.myopenid.com/directory has a list. And I use it on ficlets and basecamp. (I already have a paid LJ account; in fact, my LJ account is my openid.)
- pg 19y agoWe are (or rather Robert Morris is) working now on adding support for it on news.yc.
- sharpshoot 19y agowith sitepass?
- steve 19y agoThat little phishing problem is still unsolved, yes?
- inklesspen 19y agoIn the sense that a rogue site can pretend to support openid, but actually present a copy of the openid provider's site, yes. People just have to be careful to check the domain name and SSL cert, just like everywhere else. Wordpress.com has an interesting way of handling this; when you use your wordpress.com openid, it doesn't let you log in from the page you get redirected to. You have to manually go to the front page by typing in the address, log in there, and then continue. It's annoying, but probably patches the hole.
- steve 19y agoThank god openid is here to make logging in so much easier!..
- tx 19y agoI like the idea but I dot believe it will work. Major players (Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) are NOT interested in open standards for their user authentication. This is why Microsoft Passport failed and this is why Google Checkout will fail and OpenID will follow their "lead".