I just bumped into this post by Martin Atkins that talks about proxy OpenID services that can delegate OpenID formated requests to their respective browser based authentication identity providers.
I’m actually working on such a thing that will delegate OpenID to Yahoo’s BBAuth authentication allowing anyone with a Yahoo ID (and, of course, anyone with Yahoo Email) to authenticate using OpenID.
The only annoying thing is that the URL is a bit ugly. Currently, my version uses a URL structure of /users/john@yahoo.com which is a bit annoying, but should be sufficient for now.
I’m hoping to get a release sometime next week. Stay tuned!
http://mart.degeneration.co.uk/ wrote:
If you think those URLs are ugly, you should see the ones my LID to OpenID proxy used!
BBAuth was the main thing I was looking at before I wrote that post, so I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Link | January 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am
I sure hope I’ll manage to release it by next week (hopefully it will even work
).
If it will work I’ll see if I can also add Google Accounts to it.
But first things first, lets make BBAuth work
Link | January 17th, 2007 at 11:12 am
damnian wrote:
Sounds very interesting, although you’ll probably be violating their terms by doing this.
Isn’t it better to make the URL look like /yahoo/john (later maybe /google/john?)
??? ????, ??????!
Link | January 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Actually I don’t think I will be violating their terms of usage, since I’ve applied to a valid API key and I’m using their services to authenticate users, which is exactly what their services is suppose to do.
Anyhow, your URL suggestion might just work
But in Yahoo’s case they have multiple users in the form of xxx@yahoo.co.uk and stuff like that.
Perhaps as a first stage I’ll simply support yahoo.com users and afterwards if I can get Google Accounts working with gmail.com.
Link | January 17th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
idproxy.net and OpenIDBridge.com or I’m late, again! | Another blog bites the dust wrote:
[...] Proxy OpenID Services [...]
Link | January 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
The Undevelopment Blog » Bridge over Troubled Water wrote:
[...] Sandler talked about it. Simon Willison did it. Yahoo! BBAuth to OpeniD proxy/bridge. This means you can use your [...]
Link | January 28th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Gaurav Kanoongo wrote:
Good work…Keep it up.
Link | April 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Gaurav Kanoongo wrote:
Good Work.
Keep it up.
Do it for Google accounts also.
Link | April 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pm