Your Google profile is now also an OpenId

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/25/google-profile-openid/

by anigbrowl • 17 years ago

77 12 17 years ago

"Now"? Isn't this old news? I've been using Google for OpenID for ages (measured in internet time). Or am I missing something?

johns• 17 years ago

Which required a URL that everyone used (https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id). This uses your Google Profile URL (e.g. http://www.google.com/profiles/johnsheehan) as the signin URL. Someone with more intimate knowledge of OpenID can feel free to explain the technical names for these things.

bajsejohannes2• 17 years ago

I see. Thanks.

patio11• 17 years ago

Someone with more intimate knowledge of OpenID can feel free to explain the technical names for these things.

I have spent the last two weeks implementing it at my day job and I still can't keep the names straight. OpenID is like a case study in obtuse nomenclature.

Let'se see: the first URL isn't a URL. It is an Identifier. To be specific, it is a User-Supplied Identifier. It isn't a Claimed Identifier, you see, because that would uniquely represent the user. You perform Discovery on the User-Supplied Identifier to determine what the Endpoint is to redirect the client to so that the OP can assist the user in moving from a User-Supplied Identifier or possibly an OP-Local Identifier to a Claimed Identifier.

I think I have that right. I'm not sure -- I only implemented it.

nir• 17 years ago

Isn't the single URL approach more user (& developer) friendly, though? It allows developers to just put in a "sign in via Google" button, instead of confusing users by requiring them to enter their OpenID URL.

InclinedPlane• 17 years ago

Google's old implementation of OpenID was within the standard but outside of the spirit. Google would provide a different URI for every website you visited. This makes some aspects of using OpenID less useful (such as federated account meta data and links). Google now offers the ability to have one single URI as a user's OpenID identifier, which puts them in line with every other major OpenID provider.

treitnauer• 17 years ago

I'd really like to use my Google Profile on my own domain name like profile.myname.com.

wmf2• 17 years ago

Try delegation. http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/02/using_openid_delegat...

tolmasky• 17 years ago

If I use delegation currently with a different provider (or whatever they're called), can I later switch to using google and still be able to log in to all the places I already signed up with?

Your Google profile is now also an OpenId

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