Questions tagged [openid2]
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Why is HTML form redirection used in OpenID 2?
Why would you do an automatic HTML post rather than a simple redirect?
Is this so developers can automatically generate a login form that posts directory to the remote server when the OpenID is known?
eg.
User is not logged in and visits your login…
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What exactly will happen to Google OpenId Connect to OpenID 2.0 mapping on Jan 1, 2017?
According to The Google OpenID 2.0 migration timetable, "mapping of OpenID 2.0 identifiers to OAuth 2.0 identifiers will continue to work until January 1, 2017."
It is not 100% clear from the documentation what form this transition will take. Will…
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Open Id XRDS Discovery
I am working with Open Id, just playing around making a class to interact / auth Open Id's on my site (in PHP). I know there are a few other Libraries (like RPX), but I want to use my own (its good to keep help better understand the protocol and…
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Requesting email address from OpenID provider in PHP
What's the simplest way to request an email address from an OpenID provider?
Is there a good PHP library that simplifies this problem?
I know that providers implement things differently. I've heard you need to do both Simple Registration and…
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Migrating openID2.0 to Google+ with python-social-auth (Mapping openid id to gplus id)
We were previously using openID 2.0, and have a database full of users and their associated openids. In light of the deprecation of this protocol we decided to go with Google+ signins instead.
python-social-auth made this relatively straightforward…
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