[OpenID] What is my Google OpenID URL?

[Andrew Arnott]

Wow.  I'm going to have to use that tinyurl everywhere now. :-p
--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> come  on google, it takes you 10s to have a redirector URL (op.google.com,
> perhaps?) redirect to the https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id.
> Conforming RPs are require to follow the redirect, before detecting that the
> XRD at that address is an law#4-capable OP, vs a user.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/googop now produces
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> -<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/peter/Desktop/id.xml#> <xrds:XRDS
> xmlns:xrds="xri://$xrds" xmlns="xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)">
> -<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/peter/Desktop/id.xml#> <XRD>
> -<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/peter/Desktop/id.xml#> <Service
> priority="0">
>  <Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/server</Type>
>  <Type>http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0</Type>
>  <Type>http://specs.openid.net/extensions/ui/1.0/mode/popup</Type>
>  <Type>http://specs.openid.net/extensions/ui/1.0/icon</Type>
>  <Type>http://specs.openid.net/extensions/pape/1.0</Type>
>  <URI>https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud</URI>
>  </Service>
>  </XRD>
>
> im sure google can do better than tinyurl.com!
>
> How about op.google.com?!
>
> ________________________________
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Arnott [andrewarnott at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:16 PM
> To: Eric Sachs
> Cc: general at openid.net; Paul Johnston
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] What is my Google OpenID URL?
>
> Note that using your Blogger blog URL is not equivalent to using
> https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id.  Besides the user interface of the
> login experience being completely different, Blogger's Provider is only an
> OpenID 1.1 provider, whereas Google's
> https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id OpenID Provider is a more secure
> OpenID 2.0 provider.
>
> --
> Andrew Arnott
> "I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
> your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com<mailto:
> esachs at google.com>> wrote:
> If you create a blog on Google's blogger service, then you can type the
> name of that blog into OpenID login boxes.
>
> If you are willing to be really geeky, type in
> https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id.  That points to the generic Google
> identity provider, and you will be redirected back with an opaque
> identifier.  But we don't actually expect anyone to know to do that which is
> why a lot of OpenID relying parties are supporting other user interfaces
> with buttons for Google.  For example, see
> http://uservoice.com/session/new
>
> Similarly a lot of blogs allow you to comment and identify you with an
> OpenID URL, and while you can try one of the tricks above, many of the blog
> commenting interfaces also include buttons (or the NASCAR style UI as the
> community likes to call it) to help users navigate their way through.
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Paul Johnston <paj at pajhome.org.uk<mailto:
> paj at pajhome.org.uk>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry for asking such an obvious question, but after considerable
> time spent searching for this I am unable to figure this out.
>
> My google account name is paul.paj. I would like to login to
> bitbucket.org<http://bitbucket.org> using OpenID. How do I do it?
>
> Paul
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