[OpenID] Google Blogger and openid. Does it really work? (today?)

[Peter Williams]

I cannot say the mystery is solved, but I made some progress. 

Now to Facts 

- creating a google account takes moments

- one can setup blogger service from the dashboard

- One can alter settings and comments, to allow commenting by "registered users, including openid".

- once logged into Google Account, the blog owner can leave an authenticated comment on http://openid2.blogspot.com/.

- once logged into Google Account, I could leave an authenticated comment on John's blogger comment form.


Conjecture:

Be it Bug or "designer-bug", it appears (a) one must have a Google Account (b) be subject to its (hardly onerous) legal provisions, (c) be signed in as a subscriber.... to leave an authenticated comment using the pseudoanonymising features of leaving a comment as a "registered user - via OpenID".

Interesting apparent legal strategy on Google's part, which really doesn't surprise me (given the sheer risk of being a relying party in UK/US). The subscriber leaving the comment is required to be and must assert to be Google Account member, subject to Google legal terms.

Is this policy "consistent" with the UCI component of the "UCI" vision, folks? 

I'm kind of disappointed (tho not totally surprised at a gigafirm with giga reliance-time risks protecting itself legally, this way).

If the Blogger anonymous URL feature works as one might expect, there may be an opportunity for a sxipper type plugin/service (which Ive still never used, sorry I dont use FF) to act as a proxy OpenID consumer, form-posting a "unique trackback-openid' into the Google anonymous URL commenting field, that tracksback back to the actual consumed openid presented from the sxipper log files.





 



From: John Panzer
Sent: Tue 3/25/2008 7:03 PM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google Blogger and openid. Does it really work? (today?)


So, commenting on Blogger using my ID http://jpanzer.myopenid.com/ works fine for me (on FF2 and IE7).  For Peter it appears that something is failing and Blogger is acting as if a non-OpenID URL was entered.  Anyone else care to try?

Peter Williams wrote: 
Thanks for trying, John. Using your parameters made no difference; pdf evidence attached. I would not normally discuss a particular vendor (unlike the work of open source projects... who usually relish out the air time), but its such a high profile claim for OpenID2 adoption that Blogger works.... that it NEEDS to work NOW, for the average Joe against the OpenID gold standard - "myopenid" URLs.





From: John Panzer
Sent: Tue 3/25/2008 3:21 PM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google Blogger and openid. Does it really work? (today?)


Blogger is currently at OpenID 1.1 and doesn't yet support i-names (@blog*lockbox).  I was able to publish a comment using http://jpanzer.myopenid.com/.  Obviously I can't test the others :).

http://www.abstractioneer.org/ is OpenID-comment-enabled.

Peter Williams wrote: 
Can someone point me at a Google blogger endpoint that has recently accepted their openid, please?

On a particular blogsite, all I get is "OpenID url is missing", for @blog*lockbox, http://rapattoni.trustbearer.com/lockbox, and homepw.myopenid.com



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