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Jun
6

I already touched on a neat feature of OpenID - you can have a plain old web page URI act as a proxy / alias for your openid. Well now the Sun OpenID IdP is up and running, I can test the theory.

Per the FAQ, you need to add a couple of lines to your web page - in the case of a Roller template this needs to be close to the outside of the HTML; in my case that's in the _decorator template. 

openid

OK, let's try it. First over to LiveJournal :

Click, over to the Sun IdP :


I type in my credentials and ...


Yes I do, and I'm in :

 


Yeah - it works !!
 

 

 

 

Comments:

Thanks. Although the example makes a bit more sense if you use the URIs for Sun's provider... :-) copying verbatim from your page...:

<link rel="openid.server" href="https://openid.sun.com/openid/service" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.sun.com/sharps" />

Posted by eduardo pelegri-llopart on June 06, 2007 at 03:38 PM PDT #

Thanks Eduardo, good catch.

Posted by Rich Sharples on June 06, 2007 at 04:13 PM PDT #

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