[OpenID] Issues with OpenID and Opera?

[Dick Hardt]

I just logged into Livejournal with Opera and it worked fine.

Don't have a suggestion on what might be wrong for you unfortunately.

-- Dick

On 22-Dec-06, at 6:45 PM, Audra Johnson wrote:

> Has anyone ever had problems signing into OpenID sites using Opera?
> (I hope this is going to the right list!)
>
> I've been trying to enable OpenID on a site of mine, but have run
> into some errors with Opera (on Mac OS X 10.4, though I don't think
> that makes a difference).  JavaScript and first party cookies are
> both enabled.  It's the darndest thing, because it will work in other
> browsers, but not in Opera, and I'm at a loss as to why.
>
> I have been looking around on the mailing lists, the wiki,
> iwantmyopenid.org, and openidenabled.com trying to figure out what I
> might be doing wrong, but then I noticed that I could not sign in
> with a valid OpenID in Opera on either iwantmyopenid.org or
> openidenabled.com, either.  Now I'm starting to wonder whether it's
> not just me.
>
> I checked two providers on both of those sites to make sure it wasn't
> a problem specific to one--LiveJournal.com and MyOpenID.com.
>
> I can log into iwantmyopenid.org with my test OpenIDs under Safari,
> but if I'm in Opera, it tells me:
>
> "OpenID authentication failed: not a valid OpenID."
>
> If I try to sign in on openidenabled.com, it will tell me that I've
> logged in, but I'm not--the OpenID login box to the left still has a
> login form there, and no personal information appears in the navbar.
> I do notice that when I try to authenticate on openidenabled.com, the
> server I'm trying to use as an authenticator doesn't think I'm logged
> in, even though I am.  I'm given the opportunity to log in, and then
> finish the authentication that way on LiveJournal.com OpenIDs; on
> MyOpenID, it just shunts me to a welcome log in screen after I log in.
>
> I tried to login to LiveJournal.com with the MyOpenID identity in
> Opera, but that didn't work, either.
>
> In my specific attempted implementation, during finish_auth.php
> (adapted from the PHP library consumer example), it fails with the
> error "No session state found" after returning from the server site,
> even though the $_GET array looks like it has the information it  
> needs.
>
> Am I just doing something really stupid, or is there a problem with
> Opera or a browser setting I'm forgetting that makes certain
> libraries not work with it for some reason? I am using the latest PHP
> library from http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/php/ for
> my site, but I don't know what iwantmyopenid.org or openidenabled.com
> use.  I don't *think* I'm doing anything browser specific since all
> the code is server side in my instance, at least, but it's very
> confusing as to why it will work in other browsers for me but not
> Opera, and not just on my implementation attempt, but on two major
> OpenID advocacy sites as well, with two different providers.
>
> --A. Johnson
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