OpenID has been in the news lately. Having decided to get myself one, I discovered I already had ready access to two:
However, one of the points of OpenID is that no central servers are needed, and I could host my own. So I read
Sam Ruby’s guide, which covered the essential details, and had a go. jh.mcaleely.com has three core components:
One key thing I discovered is that clients which use the HTML are quite sensitive about their parsing.
plaxo.com, for example, would not parse a HTML4.01/Transisitional document, but was happy with the same document in XHTML 1.0. Given this sensitivity, I’m not hosting any actual human readable content at the URL - just a redirect to my homepage.What can I do with my OpenID? Join plaxo.com without a new password to remember for starters. I don’t think I would have bothered otherwise. I can also use it to log on to this wordpress blog. As I add blogs to mcaleely.com, I don’t have to add passwords.
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