[OpenID] Delegation leading to new accounts on websites

[Peter Williams]

try using the X-XRDS-... trick, for use by YADIS. All the metadata is the in the XRD instead,as located by the X-XRDS-... header.

We had it working last week with Yahoo (but not with Google), when we used XRD file.

With Yahoo, it didn't seem to matter what you put in the Service's LocalID - which makes sense if you think about the semantics of LocalID. But, in the context of openid discovery, I THOUGHT (given the UCI security model) citation of localID in a vanity XRD was supposed to REQUIRE Yahoo (the OP) to use the directed id of the user's choice (assuming there are several)!

if someone can, please point to a public, working trial of delegating to Google Accounts OP. Its an important milestone for openid - when vanity XRDs are properly handled by all the major OPs, including FaceBook, Google etc. We know openid is balancing commercial and personal interests then. A technology that (a) works in practice, and (b) somehow balances such contrary interests is, of course a world beater (like SSL!)

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Tom Edwards [t_edwards at btinternet.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:21 PM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID] Delegation leading to new accounts on websites

My personal OpenID server broke a while back, and I've decided this
evening to start delegating in order continue using my personal URL
(<http://steamreview.org>). This is the code now in my page header:
> <link rel="openid.delegate openid2.local_id"
> href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/varsity/" />
> <link rel="openid.server openid2.provider"
> href="https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth" />
But when I login to the sites I used my openid on before it broke (I've
tried Get Satisfaction and Userstyles.org so far), they don't recognise
me as an pre-existing user. They think I'm
www.flickr.com/photos/varsity/, whereas I actually still want to be
steamreview.org.

Is this intended behaviour? I thought the point of delegation was to
allow people to switch providers without changing consumer-facing identity.

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