[Code] OpenId on no HTML user-agents

[Chris Messina]

This really is case for using OAuth — since it was designed to take care of
the "no-browser" use case, which OpenID is limited by.

These links might help:

http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/guide/openid-oauth-guide.html
http://hueniverse.com/oauth/

Chris

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:58 AM, valentino miazzo <
valentino.miazzo at blu-labs.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm developing applications for Bluray players and I would like to add
> OpenId compatibility of our applications.
>
> For who don't know, a Bluray applications is a sort of applet wrote in
> Java 1.3 using AWT for the UI.
> You don't have a built-in HTML browser.
> As far I can see, all the big OPs are assuming that the user-agent is
> able to parse HTML.
> Maybe this is not in the standard but seems to be the current de-facto
> situation.
>
> I see 3 solutions;
>
> A) we embed a 100% Java HTML browser on our applications.
> We did some tests and existing solutions are far from perfect.
> Glitches and issues are common.
> Not professional nor reliable.
>
> B) we use "reverse engineering" to see how the top OP implemented their
> forms and forge the POST request by hand in the bluray application.
> As example, for myopenid we need to reverse how these URL
> https://www.myopenid.com/signin_submit ,
> https://www.myopenid.com/trust_submit should be used.
> This solution is fragile. Our application will break each time one OP
> changes something in the POST "syntax".
> This leads to the solution C.
>
> C) define in the OpenId specification how OP forms use POST to login
> and/or change trust lists.
> This solution is the best one because it avoids the use of an HTML
> browser and is not prone to break suddenly.
> Off course this solution would be beneficial for any device can use HTTP
> but not HTML.
>
> How impossible is to have such extension to the standard?
> What are the problems?
>
> BTW, I saw a post in the BOARD ML: "Question on implementation of
> OAUTH/OpenID for Set-top-box".
> It cover the same problem but the thread stops without any solution.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Valentino
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