Further Clarification: LJ has OpenID, doesn't have Yadis

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

It was David (or Mart's?) very early implementation of Yadis.

Apparently it needs to be updated.

Has Yadis stabilized?  :)


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dan Lyke wrote:

> Sigh. Sorry I opened this particular can of worms. Just so everybody
> is clear:
>
> LiveJournal has OpenID. LiveJournal's OpenID works great.
>
> I love LiveJournal's OpenID!
>
> LiveJournal doesn't have Yadis. Period.
>
> Yadis is just a discovery mechanism, so this isn't really a problem, I
> can detect that the LJ URL supports OpenID while I'm looking for the
> Yadis document and use OpenID as my authentication mechanism. In fact
> it may be worthwhile to do my querying the other way around, try for
> OpenID first, if that doesn't work then go looking for a Yadis
> document, and if that doesn't work fall back to LID 1.0 ('cause I know
> of at least two other people in the world who keep LID enabled
> URLs...).
>
> LiveJournal has the vestiges of something that looks like it was
> intended to be Yadis in its early stages, but it ain't Yadis, we
> shouldn't treat it as though it's Yadis, and I was wrong to read
> anything into its existence.
>
> Dan
>
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