[OpenID] Trying to verify that my OpenID is valid

[Andrew Arnott]

At first I was excited when Peter said that MapQuest accepted OpenID.  Then
I tried it.  After authenticating but before completing signin, it wanted me
to pick an AOL screenname.  I already have one -- I was trying to avoid
using it in favor of OpenID.  -1 point.
--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
your right to say it." - Voltaire


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> The openid directory has always been full of rubbish.
>
> 12 months ago, when I went through the same exercise, there were only 2
> competent "business" sites: a dating site for Latinas (
> http://www.cupidvirtual.com/), and plaxo. The rest were someone's
> deployment of a wiki or blog, with some version of a plugin. Often, the URLs
> didn't resolve. If they worked, the value of the site was low."
>
> About 9 months ago, the magnolia site came along and look mostly coherent
> (and almost useful). I also managed to be pretty competent talking to
> livejournal.
>
> About 6 months ago, blogspot came along. It was confusing at first, because
> you had to be logged into the service natively before you could use a third
> party openid on its blogs.
>
> Lately, some classy apps are coming out, including mapquest.com. This
> definitely looks useful!
>
> Flikr would seem to be generally useful, but doesn't obviously support
> openid account linking.
>
> I could list 10 almost-rans that look cool, but don't work well enough in
> their websso behavior to take the risk of customer support hits ..were we to
> introduce users to them.
>
> I do think we are getting very much closer to business grade tho.
> Personally, though its not public, I count our own openid-enabled websso
> "gateway" as a destination, that gets desiring US Realtors to their gmail,
> calendaring and file sharing service hosted by Google Apps. Those three are
> definitely generic, "power" apps.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> > Behalf Of Dan Lyke
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:47 PM
> > To: general at openid.net
> > Subject: [OpenID] Trying to verify that my OpenID is valid
> >
> > So I decided to try to drag my OpenID identity back out of the dusty
> > recesses. I have a MediaWiki server, so I made sure I had Evan
> > Prodromou's most recent MediaWiki extension, and typed "openid test"
> > into Google.
> >
> > First response is:
> >
> > http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/
> >
> > which I try, entering http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke, and I get
> >
> >    Failed to discover any OpenID service.
> >
> > Okay, wget my URL, look in the headers, sure enough there's a
> >
> >    <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location"
> >    content="http://www.flutterby.net/Special:OpenIDXRDS/DanLyke" />
> >
> > Some further digging around reveals that, indeed, that document appears
> > to be valid. So, strike "openidenabled.com" off my list of valid OpenID
> > verifiers.
> >
> > Next  hit is a Google Code project, next one down is openidenabled.net,
> > which says "Coming Soon".
> >
> > Third hit is
> > http://winged.info/projects/news/plugins/openid/index.php?secret
> >
> > which gives me an internal parsing error.
> >
> > Okay, go to openid.com, find domain squatters, go to openid.net, and
> > discover... oh, look, I can get an OpenID URL, but I still can't find a
> > bloody OpenID consumer!
> >
> > I'm frustrated. When I last participated in the OpenID mailing list it
> > was disintegrating into a whole bunch of features and technologies that
> > I just didn't care about, but I figured leave it alone and let the dust
> > settle and maybe something good would come out of it. Now I discover
> > that bit-rot has set in and OpenID is either moribund or dead.
> >
> > What's happening here? And can I use OpenID yet, or is it still a
> > far-off technology?
> >
> > Dan
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