> 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.
Hmm, interesting. It seems, then, that this is the "right" way to implement what I'm looking for, but we'll need some sort of fallback for users from LJ-code sites and other sites that don't support simple registration. And, if that fallback involves asking users to specify a display name they want to use (either once or each comment), we need to take care to not give more features to users who don't use a simple-registration-supporting provider, and thereby "penalize" the ones who do. (Maybe the simple-registration display name can be a default that users can change on a per-comment basis, and non-simple-registration OpenID users don't get a default?) Josh _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
