[Catalog-sig] OpenID

Gary Poster gary.poster at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 00:34:15 CEST 2009


On Aug 29, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>>> When asked in an OpenID login box, you *don't* enter
>>> "https://launchpad.net/~gary" anymore. Instead, you just enter
>>> "https://launchpad.net" (or click on the Launchpad icon). The OpenID
>>> machinery will then steer you through the login process. You may  
>>> have
>>> to confirm that you want to login into PyPI (*), but you won't  
>>> have to
>>> tell anywhere explicitly that you are gary - assuming you had logged
>>> into Launchpad before.
>>>
>>> This much improved user experience is the key feature of OpenID 2.0.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> (*) if you had confirmed this before, you may get logged in
>>> immediately after clicking the Launchpad icon.
>>
>> Ah gotcha.  Thank you very much for the explanation.
>>
>> If you encounter any problems with using Launchpad for this, I would
>> appreciate it if you let me know.  There's a reasonable chance I'd be
>> able to help arrange a resolution.
>
> As I said before: yes, I did encounter problems - it isn't supported
> at all, AFAICT. The reference https://launchpad.net was theoretical -
> launchpad doesn't appear to support OpenID 2.0.

Ah, OK.  Since we claim we do, I expect we care about that.  :-)  I'll  
investigate and report back (probably Monday).

Thanks

Gary



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