Reflections on OpenID and the euphoria around it
Once upon a time there was Brad Fitzpatrick who launched LiveJournal and who looked far ahead. He saw that the more sites on the Internet, the more times the poor user has to register on each site. And he came up with OpenID. What is ID, like everyone understands (ID-identification is obvious). But what is its Openness?
1. Any site can support OpenID as a method of authorization on itself.
2. Any site can act as an OpenID provider, that is, provide an OpenID parameter for its users when authorizing on other people's sites (of course, those that support OpenID authorization on themselves).
3. There is no single-senior-chief-Big Brother, issuing licenses to support OpenID.
Both included LiveID support points in LiveJournal. And it was good. For the time being.
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Do you want to write a blog in LJ not as an anonym, but you don’t have an account on LJ? Regenerate on any server-OpenID-provider and write under his ID. Although the registration on it is better than on LJ? Only "to be"?
Do you want to write on other OpenID-enabled sites, and lazy to fight there? If there is an LJ account, then this is not a problem - use OpenID. Here are just sites that support OpenID authorization, it was not enough.
However, global happiness did not come. Nobody wanted to provide OpenID (and why? There is no place to use), nor to support OpenID authorization (and why? Except for LJ, no one large OpenID has provided any more).
And here came Google. I grabbed Fitzpatrick, picked up the OpenID flag and said that he would now support it. And all equal people-brothers on the Internet will become even more equal. He said - and began to support OpenID (although still in some half-closed mode): go to openid-provider.appspot.com , enter the data of your google account and get the OpenID URL for authorization.
And for some reason I forgot to support the authorization of third-party OpenID providers on myself. This is understandable - why then will it be necessary for users of LJ to gossip in Google?
So freedom for all became freedom [mostly] for Google users [and other Big Brothers].
PS: In fairness, I must say that Yahoo will only provide OpenID and cannot support third-party accounts. And LJ support them only for comments.
PPS: OpenSocial is a step up from OpenID. Reflections on OpenSocial will be a bit later, if such style and content of articles will be interesting to someone other than me.
1. Any site can support OpenID as a method of authorization on itself.
2. Any site can act as an OpenID provider, that is, provide an OpenID parameter for its users when authorizing on other people's sites (of course, those that support OpenID authorization on themselves).
3. There is no single-senior-chief-Big Brother, issuing licenses to support OpenID.
Both included LiveID support points in LiveJournal. And it was good. For the time being.
')
Do you want to write a blog in LJ not as an anonym, but you don’t have an account on LJ? Regenerate on any server-OpenID-provider and write under his ID. Although the registration on it is better than on LJ? Only "to be"?
Do you want to write on other OpenID-enabled sites, and lazy to fight there? If there is an LJ account, then this is not a problem - use OpenID. Here are just sites that support OpenID authorization, it was not enough.
However, global happiness did not come. Nobody wanted to provide OpenID (and why? There is no place to use), nor to support OpenID authorization (and why? Except for LJ, no one large OpenID has provided any more).
And here came Google. I grabbed Fitzpatrick, picked up the OpenID flag and said that he would now support it. And all equal people-brothers on the Internet will become even more equal. He said - and began to support OpenID (although still in some half-closed mode): go to openid-provider.appspot.com , enter the data of your google account and get the OpenID URL for authorization.
And for some reason I forgot to support the authorization of third-party OpenID providers on myself. This is understandable - why then will it be necessary for users of LJ to gossip in Google?
So freedom for all became freedom [mostly] for Google users [and other Big Brothers].
PS: In fairness, I must say that Yahoo will only provide OpenID and cannot support third-party accounts. And LJ support them only for comments.
PPS: OpenSocial is a step up from OpenID. Reflections on OpenSocial will be a bit later, if such style and content of articles will be interesting to someone other than me.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/24176/
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