OpenID & MediaWiki: What's the current state?

[Dan Libby]

fwiw, I have an alternative implementation here:

http://wiki.www.videntity.org/wiki/MediaWiki_OpenID_Patch

It's pretty old though, and doesn't use janrain's php-openid lib.

regards,

Dan Libby

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 17:52, Dan Lyke wrote:
> I recently installed MediaWiki 1.8.2 because I kind of thought that
> OpenID with it would be easy.
>
> I first tried the OpenID extension, but that failed with a complaint
> when it came back from the authentication, the URL it gave appended a
> "?lotsofstuff" to rewritten shorter URL and, since I think I prefer
> the user experience that the JanRain version gives, rather than pursue
> fixing that I popped over to openidenabled.com and grabbed that patch.
>
> The JanRain patch I used is from
> http://www.openidenabled.com/software/mediawiki/janrain.diff/view. I
> first looked at applying it by hand, got kind of confused, did a quick:
>
>    cd flutterby_net/mediawiki-1.8.2
>    patch -p1 < patch
>
> and got a whole mess o' rejects. A few made sense, but... It looks
> like the structure of SpecialUserlogin.php has changed since these
> patch files were created.
>
> Anyone else playing with this? Should I go back to the OpenID
> extension and try just remapping the bad URLs in my web server?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
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