LiveJournal, OpenID and Yadis

Dan Lyke danlyke at flutterby.com
Wed Sep 27 23:49:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:38:20 -0700, Dan Lyke wrote:
> 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,

A little clarification here, since Brad has asked:

Yes: If I pass the initial LJ URL to ->claimed_identity, I get a  
successful OpenID login.

Since I'd found a valid looking Yadis document I'd hoped to use that,  
but it's not really a Yadis document, so the thing to do is:

1. Use the official x-xrds-location meta http-equiv tag only, don't  
get my hopes up from the x-yadis-location thing.
2. If I run across the <link rel="openid.server"...> tag while I'm  
looking for the Yadis document, just pass this URL in to the OpenID  
login.

Which is completely acceptable. I'd just hoped that LJ was doing Yadis  
too.

Dan



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