[OpenID] UCI Idea: An iPhone OP (?)

[David Fuelling]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Peter Watkins <peterw at tux.org> wrote:

>
>  1b) I can't see this working on typical wifi scenarios where the
>   device has an IANA reserved address behind some SNAT gateway;
>   simply no good way for the Internet-based RP to initiate a
>   connection back to the micro OP. With weird ports, an intelligent
>   middle-man service could map a public middle-man port to your mobile
>   through a mobile-initiated TCP tunnel to the middle-man, but we're
>   back to RP's outbound firewall rules.
>
>
Good point about trying to run an iPhoneOP on wifi.  I guess I was thinking
this would just go over the 3G network in order to avoid firewall and
routing problems.

There's a company with an iPhone App called "ServersMan" (
http://serversman.com/promo/promo_ip_en.html -- now available in US and
Japanese App Store) that runs a web server on the iPhone.  Using there app,
you can hit a URL from a web-browser on your computer, and view files served
from a webserver running on the iPhone.  This app can work over the 3G
network (worked when I tested it with my phone's wifi turned off).



> 2) Avoid the dyndns trust issue by using https URLs for your micro OP.
>   (Nobody should be using plain http for OP endpoints!)
>
>
Great point!

4) iPhone: all this without background apps? How would you use iPhone
>   Safari to authenticate to iPhone Micro OP if the two cannot run
>   simultaneously? I don't think you can -- Micro OP would need to
>   bind to a TCP port to listen for http requests, and Safari would
>   need to connect to it. If they can't run concurrently, then you
>   simply cannot make that TCP connection, right?
>
>
Yes, at least for iPhone this would preclude openid in mobile safari (likely
-- I suppose one might be able to program around this).

I was more thinking of the instance where I'm using the web-browser on my
laptop to surf, and so I could have the iPhoneOP app running for the
duration of the OpenID login.
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