[TYPO3-dev] OpenID for TYPO3 Backend issues

[Søren Malling]

Thanks to both of your for insight in  OpenID and comitting a patch
which might solve my problem :)

I will be able to test it tomorrow on a trunk installation, really
looking forward to benefit from OpenID :)

Once again, thanks alot!

Søren Malling

TYPO3 Brugergruppe Danmark: www.typo3danmark.dk
Twitter: twitter.com/sorenmalling



On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Dmitry Dulepov
<dmitry.dulepov at typo3.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Søren Malling wrote:
>>
>> I know that you are the author behind this extension, so you might
>> have a "are you dumb, of course it works" experience;-)
>>
>> Is there any information i can provide that will make it possible to
>> debug this issue?
>
> The problem is that I never hit a problem with logins :) There was a problem
> some time ago with Yahoo: it was using one address for login but returned
> another address in response. The spec does not forbid this but does not
> allow it either, so it was a border case. If I remember correctly, we
> patched the core for that case. But I can be mistaken (details are in the
> BT). This is the only problem case I know.
>
> I have to use OpenID at work and I know many other companies use it too. So
> I suggest to try with some other OpenID provider (Yahoo, Google,
> LiveJournal, etc) and see if it helps. If it does not, there is no easy
> solution. It needs investigation and that can be tought task because OpenID
> uses multiple request/response with encryption even when it looks like a
> single redirection to their server. So it is always hard to debug&fix.
>
> --
> Dmitry Dulepov
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