[OpenID] Using HTTPS Openid Providers

Nic James Ferrier nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk
Mon Jun 18 14:32:42 UTC 2007


Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name> writes:

> On Wed, 2007-13-06 at 15:58 -0400, Immad Akhund wrote:
>
>> Are there examples of https openid provider out their? (this might be
>> a silly question) 
>
> Certifi.ca uses HTTPS for all important communications, and it uses
> client-side certificates for authentication.
>
> HOWEVER, it does not use HTTPS URLs for the actual OpenID. So, my OpenID
> is http://certifi.ca/evan . I've seen intermittent failures from some
> OpenID relying parties -- LiveJournal, I think? -- with HTTPS URLs.

Me too.

prooveme.com does something similar.


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Nic Ferrier
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