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title: "Proxy OpenID Services"
description: "<p>I just bumped into <a href="http://apparentlymart.livejournal.com/2767.html">this post</a> by <a href="http://apparentlymart.livejournal.com">Martin Atkins</a> that talks about proxy OpenID services that can delegate OpenID formated requests to their respective browser based authentication identity providers.</p>
<p>I’m actually working on such a thing that will delegate OpenID to Yahoo’s <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/">BBAuth</a> authentication allowing anyone with a Yahoo ID (and, of course, anyone with Yahoo Email) to authenticate using OpenID.</p>
<p>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.</p>"
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date: 2007-01-16

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I just bumped into [this post][1] by [Martin Atkins][2] that talks about proxy OpenID services that can delegate OpenID formated requests to their respective browser based authentication identity providers.

I&#8217;m actually working on such a thing that will delegate OpenID to Yahoo&#8217;s [BBAuth][3] 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&#8217;m hoping to get a release sometime next week. Stay tuned!

 [1]: http://apparentlymart.livejournal.com/2767.html
 [2]: http://apparentlymart.livejournal.com
 [3]: http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/