Plaxo OpenID support lacks OpenID Delegation support

July 19, 2007

UPDATE: Plaxo DO support delegation, just not XRDS. It seems a WP database problem caused some of my OpenID delegation plug-in to mess up settings the wrong openid.server and openid.delegate values.

It should have been http://www.myopenid.com/server for openid.server and http://eran.myopenid.com for openid.delegate. The problem was due to the fact that XRDS is yet to be supported in Plaxo. I didn’t notice the problem with the configuration of openid.server and openid.delegate due to the fact that the XRDS settings was correctly configured and all of the sites that I use OpenID with do support XRDS.

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Plaxo is a real cool tool to synchronize your calendar and address book. Their new v3.0 (still in preview/beta mode) is really really cool and can sync from everything to everything.

They just announced that they now support OpenID as a relaying party so you can sign up for Plaxo using an existing OpenID or attach OpenID identities (yes, in plural) to your Plaxo account.

I already had a Plaxo account so I wanted to attach my existing OpenID to it. My OpenID is actually delegated from this blog to MyOpenID (my OpenID provider) using the OpenID Delegation plugin. It seems as though the Plaxo implementation lacks support for delegation.

Too bad, delegation is one of the stronger features OpenID has.

Plaxo, please support OpenID delegation. Without delegation it’s not a complete OpenID solution (at least I think so).

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posted in OpenID, Opinion by Eran Sandler

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  • http://brianellin.com/ Brian Ellin

    Hi Eran,

    It looks like your openid.server and openid.delegate tags are incorrect. Your openid.server should be http://www.myopenid.com/server, and the delegate should be http://eran.myopenid.com/, not the other way around. Since plaxo doesn’t (yet) understand XRDS discovery, it’ll use your openid.server and openid.delegate tags. Get them pointing to the right URLs and all should work.

  • http://josephsmarr.com Joseph Smarr

    Eran-thanks for the note. We do support delegated OpenIDs, but for some reason yours is failing. I’m looking in the logs and it seems to resolve eran.sandler.co.il to eran.myopenid.com, but then when it tries to negotiate with eran.myopenid.com it fails (it says “mac_key: no such parameter”) so I guess I need to digg into why it’s complaining. Oddly, if I put in eran.myopenid.com directly, it redirects fine. Hmm…anything special about your setup? Otherwise standby and I’ll see if i can fix it. Thanks! js

  • http://eran.sandler.co.il Eran

    Hi Joseph, it seems Brian Ellin hit the spot.

    I had a problem in my WP database and it seemed to mess up some configuration settings in regards to the OpenID Delegation plugin.
    Since I had XRDS configured correctly and all the sites that I have used up until now with OpenID did support XRDS all worked well, but it seems that Plaxo doesn’t support XRDS yet.

    I re-configured the openid.server and openid.delegate as Brian suggested and it worked just fine.

    Sorry for the problems. I’ll update the post to reflect that fix. It seems I simply didn’t notice the problems in the configuration due to the XRDS support for the rest of the sites I’m using OpenID.

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