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My sister has a blog (http://perilousknits.livejournal.com). %%% I'm using this page, ["OpenID" http://openid.net], and http://www.myopenid.com to sign my comments. %%% -- ''KitzKikz'' !!Why I Did This I like leaving annoying, big brother type, comments on my sister's blog. I help keeps me connected. However, her blog software only allows comments from anonymous users, other !LiveJournal members, or OpenID. I grew tired of posting everything as anonymous -- anybody could leave a comment and claim to be me. I didn't want to join !LiveJournal, I have this wiki and don't want multiple outlets to manage. I like leaving annoying, big brother type, comments on my sister's blog. It keeps me connected :-) However, her blog software only allows comments from anonymous users, other !LiveJournal members, or OpenID. I grew tired of posting everything as anonymous (anybody could leave a comment and claim to be me) and I didn't want to join !LiveJournal (I have this wiki and don't want multiple outlets to manage). She also uses aliases for everyone she references, which I think is cool. So I didn't want to start leaving my true name all over her blog. After doing a little reading, I found that OpenID could accomodate both desires. !!How I Did This First I went to http://www.myopenid.com and created a new account. This literally took seconds. I used my real name here because I may need to use my OpenID for something serious, but if I used it on comments to my sister's blog, my real name would show on her blog. So, I needed to find a way to alias it. First I went to http://www.myopenid.com and created a new account. This literally took seconds. I used my real name there because I may need to use my OpenID for something serious, but if I used it on comments to my sister's blog, my real name would show on her blog. So, I needed to find a way to alias it. Second, since I own this site, I could use a page here to represent an alias of my ID and redirect any OpenID systems to my real account. I did this by posting the following in the header of this page: <pre> <link rel="openid.server" href="!http://www.myopenid.com/server"> <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://''account_name''.myopenid.com"> </pre> I found the above on the OpenID site, the !MyOpenID site, and several other places -- usually under the heading of "Using your blog as your ID" or something similar. I found the above on the ["OpenID site" http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-1_1.html#anchor4], the ["MyOpenID site" http://www.myopenid.com/help#own_domain], and several other places -- usually under the heading of "Using your own URL" or something similar. Now I can use http://kitzkikz.com/PerilousKnitsBro as my signature on her blog, but still have a serious ID if I need it on some other site. All this without creating multiple ID accounts, which would have really defeated the whole purpose of the OpenID concept. |
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