On 1/29/09, Josh Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 3. Maybe there's some supported way to do this within the OpenID protocol > itself? I'm way behind on that.
There is indeed a way to do this in an extension to the actual protocol itself, called "simple registration" ( http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html ), but unfortunately LiveJournal doesn't support Simple Registration as far as I can tell (certainly it doesn't return any information), so we wouldn't be able to get any of that information from LJ. However, we *would* be able to get this information from other sites (such as myopenid.com, which *does* support Simple Registration), and use that when available. If you want to see how Simple Registration works, go to this page: https://is.test.wso2.org/javarp/ . It has a number of demos, one of which is titled "OpenID Simple Registration Demo". Fill in the OpenID you use on that page and you'll see what's passed back on the "logged in" page. In the case of LJ, this will be nothing. (Also, the login only takes effect for that page; there's no need to logout since it doesn't store anything.) Simple Registration is an optional part of the protocol; even if a site asks for registration details, the OpenID server can refuse to send them. This is used in MyOpenID to tell you when a site wants to use Simple Registration, and allow you to see what will be sent. - Sophie. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
