[OpenID] OpenID consumers should make it clear if they are going to publish a user's OpenID

[Chris Messina]

When I went to login to http://openid.phpbb.cc/openid/login, that page
came up blank. Something must be wrong w/ the library and delegated
OpenIDs...

When I logged into http://test2.phpbb.cc/ I set my remote profile to
use "damnian" as my name and nickname, so that the details provided by
SR would overlap with an existing username.

What happened? I got to be damnian3!

So, clearly there's a behavior set to grab my nickname from SR and
then increment it if it already exists. This is what I was asking
about -- what to do when nicknames overlap on a system... this is one
answer. Is this satisfactory and should it be made a recommend default
behavior in the case of not publicly displaying one's OpenID URL?

Chris


On 5/14/07, Dmitry Shechtman <damnian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If there is no nickname provided by SR -- or if said nickname overlaps
> > with an existing nickname on the system, then you've lost the ability
> > to uniquely identify members in the system (i.e. two users might have
> > colliding nicknames from their respective SRs).
>
>
> I really hate doing this, but:
>
> http://openid.phpbb.cc/
> http://test2.phpbb.cc/
>
> Those are two different implementations (the first one is a sklightly
> modified JanRain/Justin Gallardo's Drupal module) that successfully cope
> with this "problem". The Mediawiki patch would be third (taking a hybrid
> approach).
>
>
> Regards,
> Dmitry
> =damnian


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