[OpenID] Offline OpenID Provider for RP development

[Luke Shepard]

That's really useful, thanks for the link.

I'd also point out that the Janrain libraries all come with sample providers and consumers, which are also really useful for the same purpose.

http://openidenabled.com/

Of course, if your relying party depends on any extensions like SREG, AX, or Oauth hybrid, it can be time-consuming and sometimes impossible to set up a private provider for testing. Nothing beats the real thing :)


On 5/2/09 9:37 PM, "Andrew Arnott" <andrewarnott at gmail.com> wrote:

No matter what your web platform or programming language of choice, if you're developing a relying party site, you may find yourself in the awkward position of not being able to expose your RP to public OPs in order to test your site -- or maybe you're just working offline.

Introducing the FOSS OpenID Offline Provider <https://www.ohloh.net/p/dotnetopenauth/download?package=DotNetOpenAuth-Tools>  for Windows.  (this sounds like marketing).  It is still pretty new and new features will be added with time, but right now it's a small program that you can just launch in order to get a local OP going so your local RP can log in with it without being online and without giving away anything about your RP while you're in development.

Keep in mind that yes, it's based on DotNetOpenAuth, but since it's just the OpenID protocol, any RP should be able to work with it.

It might even work on Linux if Mono can handle it as it's based on .NET 3.5.

Of course feedback is welcome. :)

--
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

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