On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Robert Shaver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@shaverassociates.net">rob@shaverassociates.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div>I've tried and tried and tried to use OpenID. I've failed every time upto now. Why? Because I can't figure out how to get one or use the one I already have.</div>
<div> </div></font></blockquote><div><br>Sorry to hear you've been having problems -- and thanks for the feedback!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div></div><div>I have a blog on Blogger. The OpenID help page says that I can use it as an OpenID. Specifically it says on this page <a href="http://openid.net/get/" target="_blank">http://openid.net/get/</a> to use "<b>blogname</b>.<a href="http://blogspot.com" target="_blank">blogspot.com</a>". But what does this really mean?</div>
<div> </div><div>I know I'm supposed to use some string in place of "blogname", but what string? Is it my Goggle account ID? Tried that ... fails. Is it the title of my blog? I think not because it has spaces in it. Is it the URL to my blog? My blog subdomain is "newmedia101" so I tried "<a href="http://newmedia101.blogspot.com" target="_blank">newmedia101.blogspot.com</a>" and "<a href="http://newmedia101.blogger.com" target="_blank">newmedia101.blogger.com</a>", but those didn't work.</div>
<div> </div><div>Then I found the OpenID tab in my blogger dashboard. It said that my OpenID is <table><tbody><tr><th><b></b></th> <td><a href="http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/" target="_blank">http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/</a> but that failed. Then I tried "<a href="http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/" target="_blank">newmedia101.austincsl.org/</a>" and that worked. Wow. Finally success after months of trying.</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div><div> </div><div>(And, yes, I knew the URL from the beginning but thought I had to follow the directions. I tried the above string but it didn't work the first time. I must have had a typo, so I thought I'd eliminated that as aposibility.)</div>
<div> </div><div>So now how to we get the documentation fixed?</div><div> </div></font></blockquote><div><br>So, there are a couple of issues here:<br><br>1. There's no documentation on this in the official Blogger documentation (see <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/search.py?ctx=en%3Asearchbox&query=OpenID&temp_query=OpenID">http://help.blogger.com/bin/search.py?ctx=en%3Asearchbox&query=OpenID&temp_query=OpenID</a>). <br>
<br>2. The unofficial documentation at <a href="http://openid.net/get">http://openid.net/get</a> is incomplete; it should say something like "The URL of your blog, for example, <b>blogname</b>.<a href="http://blogspot.com">blogspot.com</a>"<br>
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</div><div>In an effort to make OpenID look simple, I think the documentation has been dumbed down too far. At least for Blogger, why can't is say, "Check the OpenID tab in your Blogger dashboard."</div></font></blockquote>
<div><br>This may be a good idea as well.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Well this have been a good exercise for me. I always check my facts when writing these kinds of messages and that forced me to look deeper into the issues and, thus, solving it for myself. I thought about not sending this at all but perhaps it might be useful to someone.</div>
<div> </div></font></blockquote><div><br>It's definitely useful, thanks.<br><br>Also, regarding support for OpenID 1.1 vs OpenID 2.0 : We're committed to supporting the current standard, and are planning to upgrade to 2.0 in the near future.<br>
<br>-John Panzer<br>(Wearing Blogger eng manager hat)<br><br></div></div><br>