LiveJournal, OpenID and Yadis

[Dan Lyke]

The world needs yet another weblogging system, right? Whether or not  
it does, I've got some ideas for personal content management that  
aren't being implemented anywhere else that I can see, and I've got a  
large code base in the Flutterby CMS to build on, so I'm writing some  
code to manage a journal in ways that I haven't seen journals managed  
yet.

And, of course, I need identities.

No problem, sez I, I'll whip up some Perl with Net::OpenID::Consumer  
and let people use their logins from elsewhere. Life is good.

Hey, sez I, adding Yadis to this whole mess would be awesomely cool.  
Now I know that LJ doesn't really support Yadis, but they do put up  
something that looks a lot like a Yadis document in the  
"x-yadis-location" in a meta http-equiv tag, so I'll go get that, look  
for the entry which has as its type "http://openid.net/signon/1.0" and  
pass that puppy to Net::OpenID::Consumer's "claimed_identity" method!

No joy. ...->claimed_identity is returning undef.

I'll carry on using VeriSign's Yadis/OpenID implementation and see  
where that leads, but does anyone know what LJ's plans are concerning  
Yadis and future OpenID work?

Dan