[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

Andrew Arnott andrewarnott at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 18:12:08 UTC 2008


Yes, RPs must follow redirects to find the claimed identifier as part of
discovery and/or assertion verification.  And you definitely do not want
your personal identifier URL to redirect to Google's OP Identifier as I
think you've suggested, or else directed identity will end up clashing with
your personal identifier and web sites will think you're claiming the OP
Identifier as your own personal identifier, and discovery would either fail
or go badly awry.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> Shame on me, as I've already forgotten the spec I studied last year.
>
> does compliance require the RP to follow redirects to learn the "fully
> normalized" OP identifier?
>
> i.e. ifI type in to the RP "home_pw.org/openid" (hosted by google's DNS
> contractor) and that DNS server offers the i-broker-like 302 redirect
> service to http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id identifier, that's fine as
> my local name for GoogleIDP, no?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Dick Hardt
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:54 AM
> To: Breno de Medeiros
> Cc: Joseph Smarr; OpenID List
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live
>
> "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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