[step2] Re: A library for OpenID via popup

Breno breno.demedeiros at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 04:18:24 UTC 2009


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.
>
> Allen
>

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. We
just haven't code a more meaningful cancellation page (except for the
absence of login information).


>
>
>
> 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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> Breno de Medeiros
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