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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The core OpenID spec doesn’t by itself provide a lot of data – just an identifier. I was able to log in with an OpenID identifier using the Myspace endpoint without pre-registration using the generic PHP Janrain library. Of course, to access extended information using OAuth, you need to pre-register, but that is entirely within both the letter and the spirit of the OpenID and OAuth specs. <BR>
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>From the OAuth spec, section 4.2:<BR>
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“</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The Service Provider’s responsibility is to enable Consumer Developers to establish a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. The process and requirements for provisioning these are entirely up to the Service Providers.”<BR>
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This highlights the fact that in order to build a truly useful stack, we need to extend the core specs to allow for more data flow. The OpenID/OAuth hybrid is a great example of the kind of work that’s going on to enable that. <BR>
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On 4/2/09 10:46 AM, "Martin Atkins" <<a href="mart@degeneration.co.uk">mart@degeneration.co.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Allen Tom wrote:<BR>
> santrajan wrote:<BR>
>> As a side note myspace has come out with there own version of OpenID<BR>
>> support, which is not compatible with the OpenID specification. Another<BR>
>> example of vested interests tearing apart the concept of OpenID.<BR>
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> Can you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell, MySpace has implemented<BR>
> OpenID 2.0 along with the OpenID OAuth Extension. The OpenID OAuth<BR>
> Extension is not finalized yet, but there is a draft spec available.<BR>
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MySpaceID currently requires an application to be pre-registered with<BR>
MySpace, so it doesn't do ad-hoc interop as most OpenID Providers do.<BR>
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