[JDEV] jogger, sso via jabber

[Brad Pauly]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 16:20, Matt Jankowski wrote:
> ps- Has anyone investigated using the Jabber network as a "behind the
> scenes" distributed identification system?  I envision a user going to a
> website, providing their JID, the website looks up the user's "xmpp-sso"
> provider (or whatever) via Jabber, submits a request to that service, the
> user auth's the request on THEIR provider site (not the foreign site),
> their provider gets back to the website, and they've been logged in w/out
> setting up an account or providing a password.  This could be useful for
> pretty much any site that requires user identification, removing the need
> for dozens (hundreds?) of accounts across the web for each user.  Maybe
> even use vCard's or other protocol bits to discover things about the user
> w/out the user needing to fill in form after form.  Does that make sense,
> or should I write a fuller description?

If I understand you correctly, this is pretty easy to do. I just did a
quick test with Class.Jabber.PHP (http://phpjabber.g-blog.net/) and it
worked fine. You could use vCard info to get other information if need
be.

Brad