[OpenID] thoughts on a consumer driven idp affiliate program

Dmitry Shechtman damnian at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 18:14:59 UTC 2007


Martin Atkins wrote:
> I don't want to get to the situation where I follow a random 
> link to some other site and suddenly I've implicitly initiated a login 
> request.

This problem isn't new; it's been around long before OpenID appeared. Each
site should provide an explicit autologin option, as many already do for
"normal" logins. See http://test.phpbb.cc/ucp.php?mode=login (just don't try
to log in: OpenID registration is broken due to lack of maintenance).


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian




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