OpenID integration is one of the web2.0 strategies that I am preaching about. I haven’t bothered putting together a list of the strategies I am preaching about, but when I do.. I’ll link to it!
Why integrate OpenID? Two reasons… numbers and speed. People who have an OpenID will want to use it places; many people have an OpenID - everyone who has a technorati account, or a WordPress.org blog account… these people already have an OpenID, though they won’t realise it until a site tells them. And when they do realise they discover they don’t haev to enter their phone number, name, address, date of birth favourite star sign, and sometimes they don’t have to proof they are human either - why do we care if our users are human?
Those are two reasons… if you have a blog then there is a WordPress OpenID Plugin, if you don’t then perhaps there is a plugin for the platform/framework you are using… Is there one for CakePHP? Yes it turns out that there is an OpenID component for CakePHP.
Of course, the plugin I have just installed doesn’t seem to be playing nicely - where is the endpoint to the openID server?
Update: There seems to be an issue with the openID endpoint and WP-OpenID plugin? This forum was last posted to 2 days ago… so I changed to the Simple OpenID plugin - but it looks like I’ll need to get my hands dirty to implement it.
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Hello. I developed the Simple OpenID Plugin. The problem is that the wp-comments-post.php script from wp 2.3.1 on doesn’t really accept GET requests that easy.
For OpenID to function, the consumer is actually redirected by the OpenID client (in this case WP) to the OpenID server for authentication and returned to wp-comments-post.php afterwards by the server through a GET request. This extra step doesn’t work anymore.
I haven’t found a clean workaround this problem. The fact that GET requests were banned from wp-comments-post.php was a security issue in the first place.
That is a pain… could you set up a website somewhere to accept the get requests and forward them with a post?