[OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

[Carsten Pötter]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Luke Shepard <lshepard at facebook.com>wrote:

>
> > Are Web.de/GMX and Facebook using any vendor specific APIs or extensions?
>
> There are no vendor specific APIs or extensions – we are using
> off-the-shelf OpenID. The automatic login uses checkid_immediate, and the
> verified email is passed using Attribute Exchange. In fact, it’s the same
> code path as Gmail. The standard has been pretty great :)
>

Thanks a lot for the explanation.

>
>
> > However users had to provide usernames and passwords -> password
> anti-pattern.
>
> If the user already has a Facebook account, then they are given the option
> to link that account instead of creating a new one. But in no circumstances
> does the user enter their Facebook password anywhere but Facebook. We are
> using OpenID to avoid the password anti-pattern.
>

I wasn't claiming that the Facebook password was used but that GMX/Web.de
still use 3rd party logins to make their navigator work.

>
> If you have a web.de account and you try it out, let me know if you have
> feedback.
>

Tried it with GMX. It works :)

Carsten

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