Comments on: When your OpenID provider goes offline… http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297 the web, the world, us, you and them Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Hills http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297/comment-page-1#comment-13966 Chris Hills Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:43 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297#comment-13966 This is why I encourage site operators to support associating multiple openids to a single account. I have two openid referrers using two different providers, using different ip spaces and domains where possible to provide a much greater level of resiliency than if I was to rely solely on one provider. I find it ironic that the creator of the openid specification has very poor support as an openid consumer. It treats users as second class, and there is no way to associate more than one openid with your account. This is why I encourage site operators to support associating multiple openids to a single account. I have two openid referrers using two different providers, using different ip spaces and domains where possible to provide a much greater level of resiliency than if I was to rely solely on one provider.

I find it ironic that the creator of the openid specification has very poor support as an openid consumer. It treats users as second class, and there is no way to associate more than one openid with your account.

]]> By: Alexandre Alapetite http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297/comment-page-1#comment-13965 Alexandre Alapetite Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:15 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297#comment-13965 If it can inspire you, here is my YADIS file [http://alexandre.alapetite.net/id/yadis.xrds.xml] (for instance used to post this very comment), and I serve it using content-negotiation with an Apache's type-map file (.var) [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/content-negotiation.html] at the root of my Web site, which looks like that (simplified, as I have also French, English, etc.): URI: index.html Content-type: text/html;qs=0.5 URI: index.html Content-type: application/xhtml+xml URI: id/yadis.xrds.xml Content-type: application/xrds+xml If it can inspire you, here is my YADIS file [http://alexandre.alapetite.net/id/yadis.xrds.xml] (for instance used to post this very comment), and I serve it using content-negotiation with an Apache’s type-map file (.var) [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/content-negotiation.html] at the root of my Web site, which looks like that (simplified, as I have also French, English, etc.):

URI: index.html
Content-type: text/html;qs=0.5

URI: index.html
Content-type: application/xhtml+xml

URI: id/yadis.xrds.xml
Content-type: application/xrds+xml

]]> By: danbri http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297/comment-page-1#comment-13963 danbri Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:45:37 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297#comment-13963 Ah, I guess Yadis finally makes it to the top of my reading list then! Hopefully the priorities/versioning/alternate stuff makes it worthwhile learning and publishing another file format.... Ah, I guess Yadis finally makes it to the top of my reading list then! Hopefully the priorities/versioning/alternate stuff makes it worthwhile learning and publishing another file format….

]]> By: Alexandre Alapetite http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297/comment-page-1#comment-13962 Alexandre Alapetite Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:35:45 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/297#comment-13962 If your own domain does not go down, you can (should?) provide a list of OpenID servers which know you. This is done in a standard YADIS file [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadis] that supports priorities, versioning, alternative identification protocols, etc. If your own domain does not go down, you can (should?) provide a list of OpenID servers which know you. This is done in a standard YADIS file [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadis] that supports priorities, versioning, alternative identification protocols, etc.

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