Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Fred can use his own OpenID ‘fred.example.org’, initially set up behind >> the scenes to delegate to ‘bigcorp.example.com’ as the provider. Any >> time he likes, Fred can *change* which provider is actually used for >> authentication, without changing his OpenID. PyPI gets to find out which >> provider Fred is using for the identity ‘fred.example.org’ each time it >> performs discovery on that identity, not before. >> > > Does that actually work? What actual OpenID provider allows me to claim > 'fred.example.org' as my OpenID? Sure, one can use authentication > delegation, by means of the openid.delegate link. However, that still > doesn't make the claimed identifier fred.example.com, but > bigcorp.example.com/fred. > > So the only thing users gain with delegation is that they don't need > to remember the tedious URL that their provider assigns them. When they > switch providers, their claimed ID will still change, and they'll have > to reregister in all services they use. > > No, the whole point of delegation is that I can use voidspace.org.uk as my openid - backed with any provider I want. I can then use voidspace.org.uk as my openid and not be tied to any provider. I'm afraid the PyPI implementation of openid is useless to me too - I want to use voidspace.org.uk as my openid but it doesn't let me. All the best, Michael > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog
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