[OpenID] Access Facebook Connect through OpenID?

[Luke Shepard]

Plenty of sites do both. JanRain has particular expertise in doing so.

Fwiw, I am fully supportive if OpenID (Facebook is the largest openid relying party). I am hopeful that both Oauth and OpenID can evolve to interoperate more cleanly.

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On Jun 3, 2010, at 7:23 PM, "Kent Wang" <kent at fearlesscritic.com<mailto:kent at fearlesscritic.com>> wrote:

Interesting. Thanks for all the responses.

I think our priority is Facebook Connect then possibly OpenID in some way. Should I just head over to the Facebook Connect documentation and follow that, or do I need to do anything special in order to be able to implement OpenID later (without any major migration problems)?

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Luke Shepard <<mailto:lshepard at facebook.com>lshepard at facebook.com<mailto:lshepard at facebook.com>> wrote:
I just wanted to clarify- you can use the full breadth of the Facebook API with oauth 2.0- both the new graph API as well as our existing methods.

We have found that OAuth 2.0 offers a simpler and easier experience for developers than OpenID 2.0, and so we are working with the community to find a way to build identity/OpenID on top of OAuth. Most of that discussion has occurred on the oauth mailing list.

 In the meantime, as another poster mentioned, you will need to support OAuth to integrate Facebook on your site.

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On Jun 3, 2010, at 6:53 PM, "John Bradley" <<mailto:ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com<mailto:ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>> wrote:

There are two versions of Facebook connect.

If you want OAuth 2.0 the new version with the Graph API is what you want.

On the other hand the old version is much more widely deployed at this point.

It is likely that a open protocol on top of OAuth for identity will emerge that will work with Facebook.

However at this point you will need to implement both protocols.

A big difference will be in how you deal with the user identifiers.

If you want FBML and other facebookish things on your site you will need to implement there protocol.

Regards
John B.

On 2010-06-03, at 8:34 PM, Kent Wang wrote:

I'm looking into implementing either Facebook Connect or OpenID on my site. Facebook's social aspects, like sharing activity on my site back to their Facebook is very compelling, but I would prefer OpenID's openness and larger userbase.

So, if I implement OpenID would I be able to also use the social aspects of Facebook Connect (assuming that the user has a Facebook account)?

I actually tried to Google this but couldn't find anybody addressing this matter specifically, perhaps because it is not possible.

Thanks in advance.

Kent Wang

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