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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>That’s really useful, thanks for the link.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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<a href="http://openidenabled.com/">http://openidenabled.com/</a><BR>
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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 :)<BR>
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On 5/2/09 9:37 PM, "Andrew Arnott" <<a href="andrewarnott@gmail.com">andrewarnott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>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.<BR>
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Introducing the FOSS OpenID Offline Provider <<a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/dotnetopenauth/download?package=DotNetOpenAuth-Tools">https://www.ohloh.net/p/dotnetopenauth/download?package=DotNetOpenAuth-Tools</a>> 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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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It might even work on Linux if Mono can handle it as it's based on .NET 3.5.<BR>
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Of course feedback is welcome. :)<BR>
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Andrew Arnott<BR>
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire<BR>
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