It may work fine for Valve, but it's not working correctly by the OpenID spec, which makes it all but useless for anyone else. You'd really need to see some documentation or get Valve to implement the spec properly to use it on a third party website (if they even intend to support that at any point).
--- Dave Kellaway On 22 March 2010 18:36, Tobias Kammersgaard <tobias.kammersga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Valve's external site they're using works just fine. You're sent to the > Steam community login page, log in and sent back to the other site. > > /ScarT > > > On 22 March 2010 18:47, David Kellaway <david.kella...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > >> It doesn't. If you're already logged in, it changes the login box to a >> "continue" button (with your username displayed above it), but it >> still doesn't return valid data to the relying party. >> >> --- >> Dave Kellaway >> >> >> On 22 March 2010 17:19, Garry Newman <garrynew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I was told that it works, but you need to already be logged in on the >> > steam community site.. >> > >> > garry >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David Kraeutmann <da...@davidkra.net> >> wrote: >> >> Strange, it doesn't work for me... >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Tom Edwards <t_edwa...@btinternet.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Oh yeah? Spill the beans! :p >> >>> >> >>> On 22/03/2010 12:03, Tobias Kammersgaard wrote: >> >>>> Valve is currently using Steam login shizzle on a new site which >> >>>> they're testing in closed beta (external from Steamcommunity.com ) :) >> >>>> >> >>>> -ScarT >> >>>> >> >>>> 2010/3/22, David Kraeutmann<da...@davidkra.net>: >> >>>> >> >>>>> It was never fully implemented. >> >>>>> https://steamcommunity.com/openid/login returns main page. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:44 AM, David Kellaway >> >>>>> <david.kella...@member.fsf.org> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>>> It's a real shame the OpenID provider doesn't work properly >> >>>>>> (DotNetOpenAuth rejects it because it's not fully compliant with the >> >>>>>> spec somehow). It'd be much less of a pain than making peoples' >> >>>>>> profiles public, editing them, and digging through the horrible XML >> >>>>>> feed. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> Is there anyone at Valve who'd know more about this? >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> --- >> >>>>>> Dave Kellaway >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On 21 March 2010 23:06, Stephen Swires<stephen.swi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>>> I tried logging into Stack Overflow with that as the OID provider, >> but it >> >>>>>>> wouldn't work. It'd be very cool if it did. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Saul Rennison >> >>>>>>> <saul.renni...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Even better, I bet you could just use: >> http://steamcommunity.com/openid/ >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >> >>>>>>>> - Saul. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> On 21 March 2010 12:32, Garry Newman<garrynew...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> Thanks, this is what I ended up doing. It's working great right >> now. >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> garry >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Harry Jeffery >> >>>>>>>>> <harry101jeff...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Prehaps try linking an account on your website to a steam >> account. >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> For example: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> To verify that they own an account with gmod on it ask them to >> put a >> >>>>>>>>>> small code/id in their steam community profile about-me section >> >>>>>>>>>> temporarily. Then you can have your website check it's existence >> by >> >>>>>>>>>> parsing the user's profile in xml: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/?xml=1 >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> If it exists you can then check if their account posesses the >> game: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> http://steamcommunity.com/id/profilename/games/?xml=1 >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Of course they would have to temporarily set their profile to >> public >> >>>>>>>>>> for this to work. Just make it a one off thing and you should >> have a >> >>>>>>>>>> pretty good way of verifying that the user owns a copy of gmod >> >>>>>>>>>> legitimately. >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> On 21 March 2010 08:45, Garry Newman<garrynew...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Is there any way that another website can verify a steam login? >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> I'm quite keen to make one of my websites check whether a user >> owns >> >>>>>>>>>>> GMod before letting them download files (because at the moment >> in >> >>>>>>>>>>> the >> >>>>>>>>>>> comments there's a lot of "does this work on non-steam" - and I >> >>>>>>>>>>> don't >> >>>>>>>>>>> want to pay to let them download stuff). >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> I'm sure I could manually post to the steam login form and see >> if >> >>>>>>>>>>> it >> >>>>>>>>>>> succeeds - but I'm guessing that if it doesn't, it will >> eventually >> >>>>>>>>>>> ban >> >>>>>>>>>>> my web server's IP. >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Anyone got any ideas, anyone already done something similar? >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> garry >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> >>>>>>>>>>> archives, >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> >>>>>>>>>> archives, >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> >>>>>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> >>>>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> -- >> >>>>>>> - Stephen Swires >> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> >>>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> >>>>>> please visit: >> >>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> >>>>> please visit: >> >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
