From: http://www.google.com/profiles/will.uther Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:54:52 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Note on delegation of Google profile openids X-Git-Tag: 3.20091202~31 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a53bded6941198b33b928c1f7a989e37d4ab1b0e;p=ikiwiki.git Note on delegation of Google profile openids --- diff --git a/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn index 53713ce10..68b44f2c1 100644 --- a/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Now that google supports using thier profiles as OpenIDs, that can be used directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]] +> This seems to work fine if you use the profile directly as an OpenID. It doesn't seem to work with delegation. From that I can see, this is a deliberate decision by Google for security reasons. See the response [here](http://groups.google.com/group/google-federated-login-api/browse_thread/thread/825067789537568c/23451a68c8b8b057?show_docid=23451a68c8b8b057). -- [[Will]] + ## historical discussion when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: