OpenID Exchange

[Johannes Ernst]

It would be very helpful if you could write up a full example  
scenario executing the protocol flow. Using something like a  
(hypothetical) Mashup as an example.


On Dec 13, 2006, at 4:43, Martin Atkins wrote:

>
> I have made an early draft of a spec called OpenID Exchange on the  
> wiki:
>      <http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Exchange_1.0>
>
> The goal of this protocol is to allow user-accompanied HTTP requests.
> "user-accompanied" means that a consumer makes a request to a  
> service on
> behalf of a user and the user reviews and approves the request.
>
> Example applications of this include:
>   * Zooomr posting photos into your blog with your one-time approval,
> without disclosing your login credentials. [1]
>   * Fetching of user profile information.
>   * Social networking friendship handshakes. [2]
>
> The protocol should, in theory, be able to act as a transport for any
> HTTP-based protocol such as SOAP and AtomAPI, as well as for simple  
> GET
> requests. The protocol for "post in my blog" could, for example,  
> just be
> an AtomAPI POST request made over OpenID Exchange.
>
> This is still work-in-progress. The spec needs lots of refinement  
> and at
> some point I'll have to make a demo or two.
>
> [1] You can still see the results of the demo of my earlier version
>     of this on LiveJournal, albeit without the pictures:
>      <http://openrpcdemo.livejournal.com/>
>
> [2] Discussed further in my blog entry on social networking:
>      <http://www.apparently.me.uk/623.html>
>
>
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