Andrew Stevens » AJAX http://andrewjstevens.com Technology, media, architecture & strategy Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:48:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 OpenID authentication protocol http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/02/openid-authentication-protocol/ http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/02/openid-authentication-protocol/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:57:19 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewjstevens.com/2008/02/openid-authentication-protocol/ Mood: Contemplative
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I have been playing with OpenID a lot lately. I have also been lucky enough to have a talented Ruby coder working with me to get the provider side of things worked out. At this stage we have gone with RESTful implementation and a MySQL datastore. OpenID is completely transparent to the end user. Neat.

I will reveal more as I progress with this project, but here is a quick diagram of the basic authentication protocol for those of you just getting started. This is not how we implemented it however…

An overview of the OpenID protocol

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