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You can ask me directly, or, if you've got a quarter handy, you can ask my buddy...
You can ask me directly, or, if you've got a quarter handy, you can ask my buddy...
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Anyway, there's an OpenID tutorial here (http://mercurychaos.insanejournal.com/311701.html?format=light) and the LJ FAQ is also helpful (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid). Bascially, if you have an IJ, sign into it, then come back to LJ to comment, chose "more posting options," click the OpenID option, and enter yourname.insanejournal.com.
Although it appears any sort of link in an OpenID comment will cause issues ....
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Hmm, going back to the comment notification email, the LJ FAQ link you posted looks a little funny. The end (after the /support/) looks like this:
faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid%C3%A2%C5%92%C2%A9=
And when I hover the mouse over the link, it looks even weirder in the statusbar. It's an a with a ^ over it, some kind of weird thing that looks like a CE merged into a single character, and then a copyright symbol and finally and =.
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Weird. It resolves just fine in firefox when I append that to the url, though.
However, what they told me to do was repost the whole thing with parens instead of html (basically, exactly the same as the second paragraph in my above comment). I tried that as the OpenID; it sent me to the captcha page and then gave a posting error. I didn't try again for fear of re-breaking your post!
That *should* have worked, though, according to the support person, so .. there's still something odd with OpenID and links.
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Second OID link (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid)
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Has this happened anywhere else? Maybe it was a one-time posting glitch?
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Both times it goes to an error preview page with a captcha filter, then after I prove I'm human it sends me to the "Error
Invalid form submission. Please refresh and try again." page.
K then.
I wonder if it does the same to pure anonymous comments?
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testing anonymous?
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I wonder if it could be an issue on IJ's end?
*test*
*fails*
Nope, not a problem with IJ.
(sorry to spam your post.)
(How does OpenID work? can by my question for your meme. *g*)
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(The funny thing is that OID was created by LJ...)
No need to apologize for spamming. I'm interested and would like to pin this down, too.
And... the way it processed that anonymous link is interesting. I wonder if there's a new LJ OID link protocol which is screwing things up. I also wonder why it would have done it to one link but not the other.
As for how it works... That's far out of my specialty. I'm tempted to let Swami Ghumbali field this one.
*goes off to do research*
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But there's also an article which says this:
Which, if I'm reading it, means that it works the way the OID provider in question chooses to make it work.
I think, basically... You have a server which acts as an "identity provider." The URL of that provider is included in the sign-on. The site where you're trying to use OID contacts the provider using the protocol of choice, and the provider verifies that you are logged in with that ID for the current browser session.
The specifics, like I said, seem to vary... and are also more technical than I can really keep up with.
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Meantime, I tried to use Yahoo as my OID, and it wouldn't let me. Yahoo says that LJ's OID version is too old, and not backwards-compatible with Yahoo's v 2.0.
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So. Weird. I'll try posting another link from openID in a second.
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it looks like I can post links if I'm logged in as the OID - but not if I'm logged into my LJ and choose the post-as-OID-but-don't-log-in option in the comment form.
Strange. I don't think that should happen, and it's got to be an LJ problem.
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funny picture is still funny! (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/20/funny-pictures-dats-mai-netwurk/)
ooh, what if I post the picture??
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the problem's not choosing to log in to the OID, I guess.
that could get annoying!
oh, just for the heck of it .. (http://www.google.com)
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this blog rocks. (http://io9.com/)
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anyway i followed your instructions, thanks. it worked ok. but it doesnt seem to have any useful value, since i'm essentially logging in under a new half-livejournal account, rather than my insanejournal. it gives a link to it, but i cant see anything on livejournal from my insanejournal, and vice versa. oh well, it was a thought.
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It's useful if you want people who see your comments and might click your username to be taken to your IJ instead of your LJ, I guess.