On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:45:30 +1000, William Grant <m...@williamgrant.id.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 00:38 -0400, Elliot Murphy wrote: > > now you mention > > LP already has stopped being an OP? > > It no longer serves as a direct OpenID provider, correct. > > > I use > > https://launchpad.net/~statik/ to login via openID to various 3rd > > party sites such as stackoverflow.com. Is this going to stop working > > ?(I won't complain if it does, just trying to understand) > > That's the XRDS coming into play. If you look at the HTML, you'll see > elements delegating the page's identity to login.launchpad.net.
This should point to login.ubuntu.com now really, I guess. Oh, except it seems that login.ubuntu.com doesn't accept requests from unknown RPs? > login.launchpad.net and login.ubuntu.com are real OpenID providers, > while Launchpad just has a couple of tags that delegate. > > This XRDS dates from the days when LP was an OpenID provider, and there > was no other URL to use. It could probably be deprecated, perhaps with > newly-created profiles not providing the delegation tags. What would it be deprecated in favour of? I can remember http://launchpad.net/~mwhudson! Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
