LiveJournal, OpenID and Yadis

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Wed Sep 27 22:49:24 UTC 2006


You passed what to ->claimed_identity?


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dan Lyke wrote:

> 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
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