OpenID + Single Signon

[Allen Tom]

Hi Justin,

Congratulations on the new job.

It sounds like what you want to do is to have the JS layer initiate a
checkid_immediate request to the OP to automatically sign in the user. The
JS should first check to see if the user is sign in locally, and if not, the
JS can send a request to the OP to try to authenticate the user. If the user
is still not authenticated when the response returns, then the user is not
signed into the OP.

Hope that helps,
Allen



On 12/9/09 6:05 PM, "jDavid" <jdavid.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just accepted a new job with Unity ( unity3d.com ), and we are
> looking into single sign on solutions for our community applications.
> Right now we are using phpBB, wordpress, uservoice, stackexchange, and
> there is a community supported mediawiki site out there too.
> 
> openID currently works on wordpress, uservoice, stackexchange and
> there is partial support in mediawiki, however if there is phpBB
> openID support, it's marginal at best. so, OpenID does seem attractive
> to use.
> 
> I want to provide a clean experience for a user to cross through all
> of these domains, and if unity3d.com were an openID provider it seems
> viable to have our users log into these other sites with their
> Unity#OpenID. I would also think with a little bit of well thought out
> Javascript that i could auto sign in an individual automatically if
> they were already signed in at the base domain. Has anyone else worked
> in this problem space? are there any examples of a working solution
> out there?