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

[Kenji Takahashi]

Similar effort by Nokia.  http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/mobile-web-server

Kenji

David Fuelling wrote:
> 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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