<div dir="ltr">I had to chuckle at your dilemma of a server that didn't have space for the OpenIDs. <div><br></div><div>"Oh," I can hear all the other webmasters saying, "that I had the problem of too many visitors...!"<div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM, SitG Admin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com">sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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What you're attempting in heuristically finding anonymous claimed ids is definitely interesting and in OpenID 1.x probably would have worked really well. I can't right now think of how to carry it over into 2.0 meaningfully though. :(<br>
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Maybe by asking OP's that implement such a feature to add another openid string to all those passed saying "This is a real ID." when they are and "This ID is anonymous." when they aren't?<br>
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Even for those not sharing my approach to pre-emptive access control (which OpenID works very well for, since you can know someone's "username" without needing to worry about that person setting up a password or someone else rushing in and setting up that account first), it may be useful for easier Identity management (local to the Relying Party's server). I've been thinking that, for those who don't have an OpenID yet, I can still offer them access (just read, no write) to a small number of pages, and suggest they use the <a href="http://www.jkg.in/openid/everyone" target="_blank">www.jkg.in/openid/everyone</a> URI for it, consolidating what could potentially be enough newly created anonymous URI's to eat up all my server's HD space into a single URI that's used by "everyone". MUCH easier to search the databases when there are fewer entries, too. It would also be nice to give them a "testing" OpenID that would walk them through the process and explain what was (and wasn't) happening as they authenticated - educating them about OpenID.<br>
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Unfortunately my ability to come up with ideas like this easily outstrips my ability to actually implement them ;)<br>
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-Shade, still toiling away on code for basic functionality<br>
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