In article <878vimhfdp....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > > > In article <87haxahh51....@benfinney.id.au>, > > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > > As someone who uses OpenID, what can I read about why OAuth is better? > > > > OpenID is for people who worry about things like how OpenID is different > > from OAuth. Oauth is for people who have no idea what OAuth is and just > > want to be able to log into web sites using their Facebook account. > > So, if I want to be free to choose an identity provider I trust, and > it's not Facebook or Google or Twitter or other privacy-hostile > services, how does OAuth help me do that? It doesn't. Well, in theory, it could, but in practice everybody's OAuth implementation is different enough that they don't interoperate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
