OpenId
Authentication with OpenId–Part 2
I my last post I created a very simple example of how to authenticate users with OpenId. In that example the user needed to enter the full URL to their OpenId provider. Today I’m going to modify that example to make the authentication process a little easier on the user. To give you an idea of what I’m going on about, take a look at the login form for StackOverflow.
Authentication with OpenId
A few weeks ago I blogged about the basics of storing web passwords. I mentioned that the best solution is to avoid storing web passwords and use OpenId to manage user authentication. I had the chance to play around with OpenId authentication and found the examples to be rather confusing, so today I’m going to write a very simple example of how to use an OpenId provider for user authentication.