On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Caius Durling wrote: > > On 2 Jun 2009, at 23:36, Arthus Erea wrote: >> >> Right, but at some point users do have to enter their URL, right? >> Ideally, I don't think users should have to enter their hp.o url at >> any step. Instead, I was thinking we'd add an additional feature to >> the standard OpenID implementation: sitewide cookies. > > [snip] > >> Right, but would they have to type their URL on each site? > > > OpenID is just a replacement for username/password. So we should > somehow magically be able to figure out a user's username and > password when they visit our site? You need to enter the details > initially, but after that they should be able to move between site's > without having to enter their URL each time - its remembered.
And yes, the original proposal would have been that you "magically remember the user" between sections of the site. OpenID should still allow that. Right, you'd have to enter it once on the entire "site" (domain). Traveling between them, the URL would be remembered. > >> I wonder how well auth chains will work though... habari -> >> caius.name -> myopenid seems a little slow. > > > I use mine all over the place and its not that slow, obviously > making 3+x HTTP calls is slower than just entering your password, > but then moving between say basecamp accounts takes a second or so, > whereas I'd have to enter a new username/password without openid - > so the tradeoff is worth it. Oh, it definitely is. I was just posing that as a thought experiment. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
