Today I committed a few pretty substantial changes to wp-openid, changing how the OpenID flow happens. Effectively, I’ve created a new single endpoint which receives all OpenID responses, located at /openid_consumer. Previously, these response were sent to a number of different endpoints depending on whether you were simply logging in, leaving a comment, […]
So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point.
I’ve been working in the Identity Management […]
Yesterday I called Bank of America to find out what had happened to my income tax refund check. I was prompted to enter my account number for ‘faster service’, but I instead simply pressed zero to bypass it. Entering your account number leads you into this drawn out description of your current balance […]
The DiSo Project (well, wp-openid specifically) is participating in the Open-Source Identity System Interop Testing happening now until the RSA Conference in April. WP-OpenID is an OpenID 1.1 and 2.0 consumer, and additionally uses the simple-registration extension. We do not yet support attribute exchange. Under the covers, we use the JanRain PHP […]
In case you missed it last week, Steve Ivy and Chris Messina announced the DiSo Project as an incubator of sorts to develop distributed social applications. Initially, they will be focussing on plugins for existing publishing platforms like WordPress and Drupal. On the WordPress side, they are using wp-openid as a foundation to […]
