You might want to look at http://openid.net/
It doesn't seem to be in wide use, but the little I've looked at it, it seems pretty nice, and there appears to be plugins for a number of popular CMS/weblog frameworks. -V On 3/2/06, A. S. Bradbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 02:37, joshua schachter wrote: > > We're working on having an API for people to get at the tags and > > bookmarks for sites they own -- any authentication ideas? > > > > Joshua > > I take it you mean verifying that you own the site you are trying to extract > this data for? In which case, google sitemaps face a practically identical > problem. The current authentication scheme > [http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/verify.html] is to get the > site owner to upload an empty file with a certain name. The ability to do > this indicates site ownership (this scheme works well when sites are hosted > under subdirectories or subdomains too). They've proposed and alternative > method > [http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/02/wed-like-your-feedback-on-potential_22.html]. > I don't like the idea of being forced to add extra cruft to my html, but as > an alternative I suppose it makes sense. > > ASB > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
