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~Bunbunmaru News~ => Letters to the Editor => Topic started by: rfw on November 04, 2010, 11:36:14 PM

Title: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: rfw on November 04, 2010, 11:36:14 PM
Just wondering about the OpenID authentication feature -- does it actually work? I've tried my OpenID provider (Google Accounts; endpoint at http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id, documentation at http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html) and I get an error telling me the provider did not return the requested information.

I have a feeling your server isn't actually making a request to the endpoint.
Title: Re: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: helvetica on November 05, 2010, 12:16:50 AM
You know... I've never even tried it.  It was added in the latest release candidate of SMF 2.0, but I have no clue if it actually works or not, nor have I even bothered to do any sort of testing.  It's possible I'm just missing configuration for it.
Title: Re: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: Edible on November 07, 2010, 05:14:20 PM
Can we disable it?
Title: Re: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: helvetica on November 07, 2010, 10:29:41 PM
Why?  I mean, if it works it could be potentially useful for people who want to maintain a single login.
Title: Re: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: Edible on November 08, 2010, 04:14:44 AM
If literally no one has used it until this dude I see zero reason to waste resources on potentially making it work. >_>
Title: Re: Does OpenID Authentication actually work?
Post by: helvetica on November 08, 2010, 04:21:44 AM
If literally no one has used it until this dude I see zero reason to waste resources on potentially making it work. >_>
I'm not "wasting" resources making it work, it was included with RC2 as one of the new features.  So fixing a feature that's already present and should be working is not that big of a deal.  But believe me I have far more pressing bugs to fix than this =P