[jdev] Jabber Login with OpenID

[Jonathan Dickinson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On
> Behalf Of Tomasz Sterna
> Sent: 12 June 2009 09:13 AM
> To: Jabber/XMPP software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] Jabber Login with OpenID
> 
> Dnia 2009-05-22, pią o godzinie 14:39 +0200, Bernhard zwischenbrugger
> pisze:
> > If you have never seen openid, here is a simple login process:
> > http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ss2009/openid/
> >
> > ejabberd provides the "auth_method: external" and it should be
> > possible to login using openid.
> 
> I was attempting this about a year ago or so
> and I stuck with the question "How do I redirect XMPP client to the
> HTTP
> page for login confirmation dialog?"
> 
> I do not really want to fit a web browser into an XMPP client...

One of the biggest gripes (and quite honestly the main reason I haven't even looked at it from a development POV) is that it is in no way platform agnostic. Bernhard is in a good scenario - the XMPP client is the browser; so it should be possible some how.

> 
> 
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> Tomasz Sterna
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> Open Source Developer
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