[Opensim-dev] OpenID

[Tommi Laukkanen]

As far as I understand with oAuth your viewer can post your credentials to
oAuth provider which will provide you with tokens. Tokens you hand to
consumers (remote services) which use those to get your identity and deduce
the access rights you have. What Diva explained is the core problem of
OpenID. The mechanism is not builtin to browsers but its takes web
forwarding to your openid browider for auth and back. If user is not careful
he can be get cheated. Normally open id should forward to your
open.idprovider according the url you gave and you should be able to
see in your
browser address bar if you were forwarded to correct place. Checking this
always takes superman qualities though.

regards,
Tommi
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