Comments on: Challenges in changing my OpenID http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid there's more to life than this Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:06:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta3-20574 By: OpenID: Redirects and Delegation » Code Nomad http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-42057 OpenID: Redirects and Delegation » Code Nomad Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:59:40 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-42057 <p>[...] some digging and a bit of guidance by this post (thanks Will), I discovered [http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#normalization] [...]</p> […] some digging and a bit of guidance by this post (thanks Will), I discovered [http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#normalization] […]

]]> By: Redirecting your OpenID | novemberborn.net http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-39519 Redirecting your OpenID | novemberborn.net Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:25:49 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-39519 <p>[...] does not carry any OpenID information. Some Googling turned up a post from Will Norris entitled Challenges in changing my OpenID. He describes a few heuristics for detecting whether an HTTP request is an OpenID [...]</p> […] does not carry any OpenID information. Some Googling turned up a post from Will Norris entitled Challenges in changing my OpenID. He describes a few heuristics for detecting whether an HTTP request is an OpenID […]

]]> By: Philihp.com http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-31264 Philihp.com Sat, 16 May 2009 18:54:07 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-31264 <p><strong>Redirecting with mod_rewrite without breaking OpenID...</strong></p> <p>On philihp.com, I redirect the root address philihp.com to philihp.com/blog. I do this with mod_rewrite, since it’s much faster to do an HTTP Location header based redirect than to use an HTML meta tag redirect. I encountered a problem with this,...</p> Redirecting with mod_rewrite without breaking OpenID…

On philihp.com, I redirect the root address philihp.com to philihp.com/blog. I do this with mod_rewrite, since it’s much faster to do an HTTP Location header based redirect than to use an HTML meta tag redirect. I encountered a problem with this,…

]]> By: Redirecting without breaking OpenID « Haris bin Ali @ qedx.com http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-28192 Redirecting without breaking OpenID « Haris bin Ali @ qedx.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:58:10 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-28192 <p>[...] as my OpenID and just doing a regular redirect broke that. I googled it up and found this post by Will Norris. His is based on WordPress though, so I had to adjust it a bit since my origin point (qedx.com) is [...]</p> […] as my OpenID and just doing a regular redirect broke that. I googled it up and found this post by Will Norris. His is based on WordPress though, so I had to adjust it a bit since my origin point (qedx.com) is […]

]]> By: Stephen Paul Weber http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-27591 Stephen Paul Weber Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:55:17 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-27591 <blockquote>"For what it’s worth, the new work we’re doing on metadata discovery with XRD would prevent this problem, since we’re moving away from overloading normal HTTP requests where possible.</blockquote> <p>It may solve this particular problem, but it's sad that the new metadata stuff is even being considered for OpenID :(</p> “For what it’s worth, the new work we’re doing on metadata discovery with XRD would prevent this problem, since we’re moving away from overloading normal HTTP requests where possible.

It may solve this particular problem, but it’s sad that the new metadata stuff is even being considered for OpenID :(

]]> By: Martin Atkins http://willnorris.com/2008/12/challenges-in-changing-my-openid#comment-27506 Martin Atkins Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:02:49 +0000 http://willnorris.com/?p=457#comment-27506 <p>At Six Apart we ran into this when we deprecated typekey.com in favor of typepad.com. Initially we had the former redirecting to the latter, but that broke everyone who had used TypeKey for OpenID.</p> <p>In the end we went for a kinda-ugly solution where we do . We found that when the refresh delay is zero search engines tend to treat it as a redirect, so it works for browsers and for search engines without breaking OpenID.</p> <p>This (moving OpenID identifiers) is definitely a pain point for OpenID today... we need a good, standard solution for this.</p> At Six Apart we ran into this when we deprecated typekey.com in favor of typepad.com. Initially we had the former redirecting to the latter, but that broke everyone who had used TypeKey for OpenID.

In the end we went for a kinda-ugly solution where we do . We found that when the refresh delay is zero search engines tend to treat it as a redirect, so it works for browsers and for search engines without breaking OpenID.

This (moving OpenID identifiers) is definitely a pain point for OpenID today… we need a good, standard solution for this.

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