[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Breno de Medeiros]

Our API documentation explains what we recommend RPs to implement to
facilitate users attempts to login using Google. (Effectively you can
hook up your button or user a parser for email addresses and perform
discovery at the endpoint above for gmail). Due to the patchy library
support of EAUT at present, we think this is an adequate interim
solution, and the modifications that we suggest RPs to perform are
independent of the actual discovery mechanism supported.


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:
> "www.google.com/accounts/o8/id"?
>
> gosh, I'll remember that one! :-)
>
> Given the non memorable openid generated by Google, I'd be interested in how
> Google thinks users will login with their OpenID if they can't type in
> gmail.com or google.com -- these should work. Will they?
>
> -- Dick
>
> On 29-Oct-08, at 10:38 AM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:
>
>> At this point, you can discover using www.google.com/accounts/o8/id as
>> your OP identifier if you so wish. However, initially we will require
>> registration. Thanks.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Forgive my apparent ignorance, but this doesn't look like a standard
>>> OpenID
>>> Provider.  I just tried to log into my own RP typing in "google.com" to
>>> use
>>> directed identity, since I have no idea what my own identifier URL would
>>> be,
>>> and no endpoints were found.  Also tried "gmail.com".
>>> When I read the blog, it mentioned OpenID but the link was to register
>>> for
>>> federated login.  I thought Shibboleth was about federated login and
>>> OpenID
>>> was about letting any RP log into an IDP.  Why does an RP have to
>>> register
>>> with Google before using its IDP?  And even if it registered, that can't
>>> automatically make "google.com" discoverable, so this doesn't feel like
>>> OpenID at all to me.
>>>
>>> Unhappy, but hoping someone can explain it to me.
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Google's IDP is now live.  You can try it on Plaxo, ZoHo, & Buxfer and
>>>> hopefully more RPs to come soon.  Here is the blog post with more
>>>> details,
>>>> including information on how RPs can sign up to use the service:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-moves-towards-single-sign-on.html
>>>>
>>>> And yes, it does allow RPs to request a user's E-mail address via AX as
>>>> an
>>>> option.  I'll let Joseph Smarr from Plaxo respond with details on how
>>>> they
>>>> are using that feature to further simplify the signup flow for Plaxo.
>>>> Eric Sachs
>>>> Product Manager, Google Security
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