LOGIN: OpenID

When building a site, you may need a private section where the user must log in. Well that seems not hard at all, but why don't you help the user to use an existing login identity which may already have?? Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, MYSpace, AOL...

Thanks to OpenID you can do this!!!.

The owner of your identity is the Identity Provider and that provider is the only site who knows/handle your password, the only one, and the rest of your profile info can be shared to all the sites you want to sign in with your identity. Your provider asks you which of this information you’re willing to give out and which not.

How does it work??. Very easy, anytime you are going to sign in at freakzion.com which allows openID you would see something like this:


if you are using a blogger account you would log in as:

user.blogspot.com where user in my case would be sepelka.blogger.com

Freakzion.com then should redirect the user to a blogger sing-in page where the user, in my case sepelka, would enter blogger's user and password. Now, the identity provider, Blogger, sends the user back to the web site he/she were visiting, freakzion.com, and gives it the information he/she allowed. Now the user is logged in to freakzion!

A new week is coming and depeche mode's concert is here!!, this cannot be a wrong week!!