Earle ([info]earle) wrote in [info]lj_dev,
@ 2008-04-10 21:11:00
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State of play on OpenID?
Hi all,

I was wondering where the LJ codebase was in regards to OpenID integration. At present, we're a sort of semi-consumer; you can log in with an OpenID identity, but not much else. Being able to tie an identity to an existing account would be a major plus, and an excellent step towards distributed identity management - bridging an identity with LJ-generated FOAF. Plus, does our codebase provide OpenID identities that can be used to log into other sites?

Cheers,

Earle.


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[info]henrylyne
2008-04-10 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Yes, you can use the URL http://earle.livejournal.com/ for OpenID authentication.

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[info]earle
2008-04-10 08:46 pm UTC (link)
That's cool. As long as nobody else does. [kidding]

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[info]pauamma
2008-04-10 09:24 pm UTC (link)
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/595984.html (which doesn't really answer your question, but...)

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[info]pbristow
2008-04-13 09:51 am UTC (link)
Thank you *so* much for linking to that discussion. It was really educational.

- Paul B. =:o}
(Officially Too Old And Slow To Be A Techie Anymore)

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[info]loic
2008-04-10 09:33 pm UTC (link)
OpenID came out of LJ. Like it was invented here. I'd say we've probably got the best support of any platform.

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[info]cowsandmilk
2008-04-10 11:30 pm UTC (link)
you wish you had the best support of any platform...

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[info]azurelunatic
2008-04-13 03:57 pm UTC (link)
I do wish we did. It would be very nice to have more control of where OpenID users may comment, and which OpenID users may comment where, for one.

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[info]ucc_journal
2008-04-14 06:47 am UTC (link)
I wrote a patch (login with your LJ OpenID, then go to the URL again) 10 months ago to give a bit more control over OpenID , and submitted it to LJ, but since then I've heard SFA except "will be looked at when we have time". It could just have been lost in the ether - LJ's gone through two issue tracking systems since then (was RT, then FogzBugz and now Jira).

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[info]pne
2008-04-11 04:30 am UTC (link)
Look at the suggestion [info]pauamma posted in the thread above yours -- to let someone log in to LiveJournal as, say, [info]loic by providing an OpenID (which you had previously tied to your account, e.g. by entering the URL in a field in your profile data) rather than with username "loic" and password "whatever". That is, having two ways to log into the same LiveJournal account: username/password, and OpenID.

It seems to me that LiveJournal would have to implement that in order to provide full support for OpenID.

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[info]pbristow
2008-04-13 09:49 am UTC (link)
Agreed.

(And that what as a really educational discussion [info]pauamma linked to. Well worth the 4 hours it took li'l old me to read and understand it all. =:o} )

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