[thelist] [OT] OpenID

Jim Puls jim at nondifferentiable.com
Wed Mar 25 19:55:12 CDT 2009


On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Mark Groen <evolt at markgroen.com> wrote:

> On Monday 23 March 2009 16:10:05 Kevin Timmins wrote:
>> Dear thelist users,
>> I am just watching Mix09, and through one link or another I have  
>> discovered
>> OpenID, Here is a link if you haven't heard of it, http://openid.net/
>> ........
>
> I implemented an OpenID Identity Provider using on my own web server  
> for
> myself via this contribution:
>
> http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID
>
> It worked, but I kept forgetting the directory it was located in on  
> the server
> (was it ID or MyID, id or...?) when a site came around that used it.
>

That's the purpose of the openid meta tags. You put those in your  
homepage, and then use that as the URL.




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