[step2] Re: A library for OpenID via popup

[Breno de Medeiros]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

>  Hey Breno -
>
> If I'm already signed into my Google Account, and I just manually close the
> popup, it seems to have the same affect as clicking continue....  I would
> think that closing the popup should be the same thing as cancelling.
>
> I think I might be seeing weird browser caching issues, because I don't see
> how closing the popup could send the assertion to the RP. I'm using Firefox
> 3 on Windows.
>


No, you are not seeing the continue action, it is just that the same page is
loading. If you pay attention, it doesn't show your email or contacts.


>
>
> Allen
>
>
> Breno wrote:
>
> BTW, we noticed some problems with the demo site on IE. (The library is
> fine, just our demo is a bit broken).
>
> I changed an iframe to <div> with overflow:scroll; + some AJAX and I think
> that fixes it. I need to wait for Dirk to push the changes into
> puffypoodles.com though. In the meantime, feel free to try your hand with
> the library.
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Breno, this is great!
>>  Quick question: did you consider putting the OpenID Provider selection
>> into the popup? Obviously this is great if you either know the provider or
>> want to support certain providers, but what if that part was deferred to the
>> popup?
>>
>>  i.e. click "I want to login" --> popup --> choose your provider -->
>> proceed through OpenID flow --> onSuccess --> return to opener
>>
>>  Chris
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Breno <breno.demedeiros at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We have checked in a javascript library that can be used for opening
>>> OpenID popups at the RP. It is available at http://step2.googlecode.com
>>>
>>> A working demo hosted on Amazon's EC2 is at
>>> http://www.puffypoodles.com/popup
>>> ; it is a single instance, so the QoS is not to be trusted!
>>>
>>> Volunteer testers appreciated!
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>>
>>> 1. It does not use any special parameters to indicate to the OP that
>>> it is using a popup window, because, well, such standard does not
>>> exist (yet!)
>>>
>>> 2. There is some documentation in the code itself, but I plan to add
>>> more in a few days, including some wiki pages.
>>>
>>> 3. The code is currently in the 'example-consumer' directory. We will
>>> eventually move it to the consumer directory.
>>>
>>> 4. Suggestions for improvements are welcome. If you find bugs, please
>>> file them and assign them to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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