[OpenID] Yahoo issue

[Dick Hardt]

On 4-Feb-08, at 11:37 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Dick Hardt wrote:
>> On 4-Feb-08, at 8:54 AM, Peter Williams wrote:
>>> Why was this so, in SSL3? Because there was a dominant interworking
>>> partner that essentially defined the basecase (Netscape).
>>> Myopenid.com plays that role, here, surely. Assurance that there
>>> has been comprehensive interworking with myopenid.com is surely
>>> what is called for.
>>
>> Why do you think myopenid.com plays that role?
>>
>
> I don't know what Peter was intending, but it could be argued that  
> most
> RPs today are based on one of JanRain's libraries. MyOpenID (as a
> product of JanRain) has presumably been tested extensively against
> JanRain's libraries.

fyi: Google is running the OpenID4Java libraries.

>
> [1] I also tried to test against Sxipper, but I couldn't make it "see"
> my login form and I wasn't really sure how else to test it.

Most forms Sxipper can detect. If not, then you can train Sxipper to  
recognize your form as an OpenID form.

-- Dick